The 46th anniversary convention of the Workmen’s Cirole closed here today after adopting resolutions calling for rehabilitation of Jewish life in Europe, and the opening of the doors of Palestine, America, and other democratic countries to displaced Jews who cannot rebuild their lives in their former homelands.
The convention also urged the punishment of all war criminals and lauded the British Labor Party for its “leadership in the democratic Socialist movement of the world.” The delegates voted to hold the next national convention in 1948 in either Boston or Cleveland. They also decided to hold a silver jubilee convention in 1950.
Ephim Jeshurin of New York was elected national president succeeding Reuben Guskin. In his final report to the conference, Guskin revealed that the Workmen’s Circle and the Jewish Labor Committee he’d withdrawn from the American Jewish Conference because that body accepted to membership the International Workers’ Order, which he termed “Communist dominated.”
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