Winter Advises Separate Drive for Polish Jews

A resolution mourning the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski was to be adopted Saturday night at the opening of the twenty-seventh annual convention of the Federation of Polish Jews at the Clarendon-Brunswick Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J.

The session was to open with a message from Benjamin Winter, president of the Federation, and with the annual report of Z. Tyge, the Executive Director.

In his message, Mr. Winter points out that the Federation was not founded for the sole purpose of aiding the Jews of Poland politically and financially. The principal aim of the founders, he emphasizes, was to unite all American Jews of Polish descent in order to help Jews of Poland wherever they may happen to be.

URGES INDEPENDENT DRIVE

During the past year, however, circumstances have made the Federation give serious consideration to the idea of launching an independent relief campaign in America in behalf of the Jews of Poland, according to Mr. Winter. If undertaken this will be the first special American campaign for the benefit of the Jews in Poland only.

Urging that the convention give full power to the administration of the Federation to organize such a separate campaign, should it find this necessary, Mr. Winter points out that the Jews of Great Britain have launched a similar campaign for the Jews of Poland, with the full support of British Jewry. This campaign in America, Mr. Winter emphasized, should be under the supervision of a committee composed of all elements in American Jewry without distinction as to the country of their origin.

Mr. Winter also recommends “as a matter of principle” that the convention approve a project now sponsored by the Federation of Polish Jews in Great Britain, to form a united body of the Federations of Polish Jews all over the world. A world conference of representatives of the Federations in various countries will take place in London, either in August or in October, according to Mr. Winter.