Establishment in each community of a local coordinating group “to cooperate with the General Jewish Council and its affiliated agencies and thus develop a coordinated local-national policy” dealing with civic protective problems was recommended yesterday by delegates from 20 communities, at the sixth annual Up-State New York and Ontario Conference of Jewish Communal Agencies.
The conference, sponsored by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, called for “the united and coordinated efforts of all our resources” to improve relations between Jews and other groups in the community and approved the achievements in this direction of the General Jewish Council. The conference urged, as a further step. coordination in fund raising of the four agencies in the General Jewish Council.
Joseph C. Hyman, executive director of the Joint Distribution Committee, told the delegates Saturday evening that sever as is the general suffering in Poland, the Jews have suffered more than the others there, because the first act of the conquerors was to rake the Jewish community. Other speakers were Sidney Wallach, of the American Jewish Committee, and Dr. William Haber, executive director of the National Refugee Service.
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