Zionist Labor Party, Poale Zion, Opens International Convention in Berlin

The eighth international conference of the Poale Zion, Zionist Labor Party, was opened here today in the presence of representatives of Jewish labor groups in European countries, as well as Palestine and the United States.

S. Kaplansky, Palestine labor leader, reviewed the progress of the movement, which was started 25 years ago, coinciding with the second wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine. He pointed to the fact that in the recent Zionist Congress elections the party polled a total of 30,000 votes. The party succeeded in securing the interest and cooperation of non-Jewish labor leaders and groups, referring in particular to the establishment of the pro-Palestine committee by leaders of the Second International. Unemployment in Palestine has been liquidated and the country is now on the threshold of a new Jewish immigration. The coming into power of the MacDonald government in England creates favorable conditions for the Zionist labor movement, he said.

The speaker devoted some time to a description of the situation of the Zionists in Russia and, protesting against the persecution of Zionism by the Soviet government, declared that “all hearts in Europe sympathize with the sufferings of our heroes and martyrs, the Zionist-Socialists in the Soviet Union.”

The conference will have to consider the present situation of the labor movement in Palestine, conditions in World Zionism, and formulate its attitude toward the extended Jewish Agency. It will also have to consider the problem emanating from the recent amalgamation of the Poale Zion party with the Hitachduth Party in Palestine.

Mr. Segal of New York reported on the progress of the Poale Zion move-

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ment in the United States. The movement, he said, is responsible for the creation and maintenance of 200 Yiddish schools and of a Jewish Teachers Seminary. It was on its initiative that the Gewerkschaften campaign for Palestine was inaugurated and carried through.

Morris Gest, theatrical producer, was a passenger on the train which plunged off the bridge at Arroys, near Stratton, Col., on the main line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, taking a toll of nine lives.

The heroism of Mr. Gest and his assistant secretary, Abie, in aiding in the rescue work was lauded by the survivors.

The late Jules E. Mastbaum of Philadelphia, who prior to his death was the president of the Stanley Company of America, left an estate of $5,565,073.S4, exclusive of large realty holdings. In addition, the estate includes $2,007,000 in lige insurance.

The Jewish Memorial Hospital has just purchased four lots on West 196th Street, west of Broadway, adjoining the lots on the same site purchased last fall. A Hospital building and a Home for Nurses are 10 be erected at a cost of $2,000,000.

Isidor Schweitzer is President of the Hospital and Morris Marks, Chairman of the Building Committee.