The closing session of the world conference of Labor Zionists voted last night to extend the party’s activities by opening offices in Washington and Paris. The decision was taken following an address by David Ben Gurion, in which he urged full support of the Labor leaders in the internal struggle within the Zionist movement and in the struggle for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
The conference, which opened here following the close of the World Zionist Congress, heard reports of the activities of Jewish workers in the DP camps in Germany and Austria and among Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Greetings were sent to the Allied forces and the Red Army and all the peoples and groups who assisted in rescuing Jews during the war. The Labor International was asked to support the “just demands of the Jews and the Jewish workers,” while special greetings were sent to the Russian Jewish community and an invitation extended to it to “join in the redemption of Zion.”
Louis Segal of New York announced that the Jewish National Workers Alliance would launch a drive to collect $350,000 to purchase a plot of land in Palestine in honor of David Pinski, famous Jewish writer, who will celebrate his 75th birthday next month.
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