The 41st annual convention of the Workmen’s Circle heard reports pointing out that the organization now has 72,000 members, with 30 new branches organized; has assets aggregating $8,000,000 and paid $65,000 in sick benefits in the past two years. The organization’s sanitorium, maintained at an annual cost of $100,000 received 80 new patients in 1940.
The education committee reported that the Workmen’s Circle maintains 152 schools throughout the country with 60 per cent of the pupils coming from homes of American-born Jews. It denied that Bible instruction had been excluded from these schools, pointing out that a Bible course was given in the higher classes.
Israel Mereminsky of the Palestine Histadruth declared in an address yesterday that Palestine’s collectives and “Kvutzoth” were Socialist islands, close to the ideals of the Workmen’s Circle. He asserted that the Palestine Jewish community was not halting a moment in its rebuilding activities.
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