Palestine possesses an effective, well-organized labor movement, which is aiding in the upbuilding of the country, it was stated by B. Charney Vladeck, general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward on his return today from a four-months’ tour of Europe and the Near East. He arrived on the Queen Mary.
Although everyone agrees that High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, said Mr. Vladeck, is friendly to Jewish settlement in Palestine, there are many members of his administration who are indifferent and even hostile to Jews.
Turning to Europe, he said it was in a state of dangerous tension with war-talk uppermost. In Poland, he found the situation of Jews “catastrophic.” Not only 3,500,000 Jews but 8,000,000 Poles are on the verge of starvation, he asserted. The only distinction between both suffering groups is that the Poles are not officially discriminated against by the government.
Mr. Vladeck, president of the American ORT Federation, attended the organization’s world conference in Paris where the decisions taken included a campaign to increase relief and repatriation work in Poland and Rumania.
Two solutions for Poland’s crisis are current in that country today, said Mr. Vladeck, listing them as parcelization of huge estates among the peasants or even more virulent agitation among Jews in order to divert any resentment against Polish land-owners. In general, the Polish people are “not as prone to anti-Semitism as we have been led to believe.”
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