The Moslem Supreme Council is preparing to send delegations to all Islamic countries to collect funds for the Arab sufferers of the recent riots. When released, Moussa Far, now in prison for boycott agitation, will join one of the delegations together with Sheik Hussan and Sheik Faruki, the latter author of the pamphlet on Pan-Arabism. relatives. It is understood that extraders will be accepted in these factories without difficulties, when the relatives abroad buy shares through the Ort.
“Nearly two million Jews in Eastern Europe are on the verge of ruin. A million declassed Jews in Russia and 800,000 Jews in Poland are in danger of losing every means of livelihood. The only hope for the Jews in Eastern Europe lies in industrialization, that is, in their learning trades and entering various industries. Otherwise these two million Jews are sentenced to gradual death through starvation.” This was the statement made by Dr. Leon Bramson, the president of the World Ort Organization, at a conference of the American Ort held Sunday afternoon in the Hotel Astor.
A census which the Ort took in Russia, said Dr. Bramson, revealed that 700,000 Jews there are unemployed. In Poland 160,000 Jewish families are dependent on the support of the Kehillah. The death rate in Poland is increasing every day; all trades and occupations are over-crowded and Jewish families are exposed to starvation. Dr. Bramson said that in Poland, in Russia and in Lithuania the economic situation is getting worse and worse, though the political situation is improving.
“In all of these countries,” Dr. Bramson said, “the Jews suffer because they cannot adapt themselves to the rapidly changing economic life. The Ort seeks to help them in this terribly difficult process of adaptation. The Ort is entitled to the support of all Jews everywhere, no matter to what class or political faction they belong.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Eastern Europe are knocking at our doors,” continued Dr. Bramson. “Grown-ups as well as children are anxious to learn a trade. Unfortunately the Ort cannot take into its schools all who wish to learn a trade. The despair of those who cannot enter our schools is so great that it can hardly be rendered in words.”
Joseph Hyman, secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, in a speech declared that he had occasion to see for himself the valuable work that was being done by the Ort in Eastern Europe. He appealed to American Jews to give the Ort their whole-hearted support.
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