11111111Iiimina m mai mii iim m im ma n nim a am im iiii m ma m mi m ma tia lim m iam m ai na mmummaim m im m mii im aii iim iii iii mii im m ai mm il itia m iam m e
VIM
MOM
MOM
MIN
omm,
momm
woo
1Wi
1W,
THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
FIRST STEP: NOMINATING CONVENTIONS.
omo
mom
mom
MMo
MID
/MO
Ow.
MM.
1W,
Ow.
mom
woo
mom
WM
IMP
MOM
MOD
MO
OMM
IMO
MIM
1W,
mom
mom
omm
IMM
MOM
MOM
MOM
MEM
IWO
MOM
1W.
MEM
ow,
mmo
omm
ommo
1■1
IMP
MEP
IWO
OW
IWO
MMM
MEM
mom
V ow
gom
wmo
gmo
OEM
VIM
IMMO
IMO
MWO
Mme
MOM
THE CALL FOR THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
By virtue of the authority vested in us, as the Executive Committee for an American Jewish Congress, the Jews of America are earnestly
requested to select representatives to an American Jewish Congress which shall meet on September 2, 1917, at Washington, D. C., exclusively
for the purpose of defining methods whereby, in co-operation with the Jews of the world, full rights may be secured for the Jews of all lands
and all laws discriminating against them may be abrogated. It being understood that the phrase "full right" is deemed to include:
1. Civil, religious, and political rights, and in addition thereto
2. Wherever the various peoples of any land are or may be recognized as having rights as such, the conferring upon the Jewish people
of the land affected, of like rights, if desired by them, as determined and ascertained by the Congress.
3. The securing and protection of Jewish rights in Palestine.
4. The question of the economic reconstruction of the Jewish communities in the war zones.
No resolution shall be introduced, considered or acted upon at the Congress which shall in any way purport or tend to commit the Con-
gress as a body, or any of its delegates or any of the communities or organizations which shall be represented therein, to the adoption, recogni-
tion or endorsement of any general theory or philosophy of Jewish life, or any theoretical principle of a racial, political, economic or religious
character, or which shall involve the perpetuation of such Congress.
The calling and holding of the Congress shall in no manner affect the autonomy of any existing American Jewish organizations, but in so
far as the Executive Committee selected by such Congress shall take action for the securing of Jewish rights as defined in the Call for such
Congress, the activities of such Executive Committee shall, during the period of its existence, be regarded as having precedence over those
of any other organizations which shall participate in such Congress.
The delegates are to be elected in the manner prescribed by the enclosed printed Rules of Elections. The general election to the Congress
is to be held on June 10, 1917.
The Congress shall meet on September 2, 1917, at Washington, D. C., unless the Administrative Committee will, by a two-thirds vote of
its members, convene it for an earlier or later date.
Yt
ours respect f u 11 y,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR AN AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS.
NATHAN STRAUS
ADOLPH LEWISOHN
Chairman
Treasurer
HARRY CUTLER
HARRY FRIEDENWALD
JACOB CARLINGER
MORRIS HILLQUIT
Honorary Financial Secretary
ISAAC A. HOURWICH
LEON SANDERS
BERNARD G. RICHARDS
Vice-Chairman
Executive Secretary
Senior Abel, Samuel Alschuler, Sholom Asch, Aaron M. Ashinsky, Maurice L. Avner, Joseph Barondess, Isaac W. Bernhcim, Herman
Bernstein, Abraham Bisno, Solomon Bloomgarden, J. I. Bluestone, Nathan T. Brenner, Israel B. Brodie, Meyer L. Brown, Fulton Brylawski,
Gedalia Bublick, 'Edward M. Chase, David Solis Cohen, Joseph H. Cohen, Charles A. Cowen, Jacob de Haas, Gotthard Deutsch, Samuel Dorf,
Bernard
Charles Dushkind, Max Eckman, Charles Eisenman, Samuel Ellsberg, Joel Enteen, S. Marcus Fechheimer, Mrs. Joseph
Fels, H. Drachman,
Fineman, Lee K. Frankel, J. Walter Freiberg, Jacob Furth, Abraham Goldberg, Max Goldfarb, Henry M. Goldfogle, Benjamin L.
Gordon, Jacob G. Grossberg, Mrs. Nathaniel E. Harris, Charles Hartman, Gustave Hartman, Joseph M. Herman, Emil G. Hirsch, Leo IL
Hoffman, Max L. Hollander, Samuel I. Hyman,. Horace M. Kallen, Maurice Kass, A. D. Katcher, Abram J. Katz, M. Kaz, Louis E. Kirstein,
Max J. Kohler, Adolf Kraus, Irving Lehman, Monte M. Lemann, Michael Leveen, Henry H. Levenson, B. L. Levinthal, Aaron J. Levy, Louis
E. Levy, T. Aaron Levy, Louis Lipsky, Meyer London, J. L. Lorie, Julian W. Mack, J. L. Magnes, M. S. Margolies, S. Margolies, Louis Mar-
shall, H. Pereira Mendes, Martin A. Meyer, Simon Miller, Max Mitchell, Henry Morgenthau, M. J. Olgin, Hugo Pam, Jacob Panken, Julius I.
Peyser, David Philipson, Nathan A. Pinanski, Max Pine, David Pinski, A. C. Ratchesky, Edwin Romberg, William Rosenau, Bernard A. Rosen-
blatt, Frank F. Rosenblatt, Julius Rosenwald, Victor Rosewater, Morris Rothenberg, Louis S. Rubinsohn, J. B. Salutsky, Jacob H. Schiff,
Benjamin Schlesinger, Joseph Schlossberg, Abraham S. Schomer, Samuel Schulman, Bernard Semel, Moses Shoenberg, Max Shulman, Max
Silverstein, Mrs. Abraham Simon, C. D. Spivak, Joshua Sprayregen, Max Stern, Jacob S. Strahl, Oscar S. Straus, Solomon Sufrin, Cyrus L.
Sulzberger, N. Syrkin, Emil Tausig, Isaac M. Ullman, Israel Unterberg, Samuel Untermeyer, B. Vladek, A. Leo Weil, Julius Weiss, Otto Irving
Wise, Stephen S. Wise, Simon Wolf, Leo Wolfson, Isidor Zar, B. Zuckerman.
MOM
mom
WID
• Wi
MOM
MM,
IMO
MOM
IMO
OW,
MO
M1MM
IMO
MOM
MED
IMO
MOM
OMB
IMO
Ow.
IWO
IMO
MEW
MM.
OMB
IMP
MI=
MOM
OW
MWO
IMO
OW
MMi
1MM
MOMM
IMO
mm•
MEM
1Wo
IMO
OM.
OM.
MOW
OMM
WOI
IWO
IOM
MOW
M1MM
MOM
IMO
1MM
WEI
IOW
OW
*WM
1■1
MOD
IMO
MIR
MMM
OMM
IMM
MOW
MOM
MM1
MOW
MM.
IMMO
IWP
MEM
IMO
OMM
OMB
IMO
4Mo
OM,
MIS
MID
iMO
MI=
MM.
mom,
mom.
mom
mm.
OW.
Mon
IMO
MEM
MOM
IMMM
OEM
MOD
OOMI
Mole
MOM
MM.
IMO
MMO
moo
mom
.woo
WM
IWO
11M
11MM
mom
MM.
MOM
mom
MID
IMO
MOM
OMMM
mom
1W,
IMO
4M,
Official Notice Issued by the
THE DATE OF ELECTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN JEWISH
CONGRESS
Every Congress Committee is hereby requested to call a con-
ference of representatives of all Jewish organizations in its city, both
those affiliated with its Committee as well as those that have not hither-
to been represented thereon, for the purpose of reorganizing the Com-
mittee and electing its officers.
Every society, lodge, branch, local, section, camp, congregation
or other Organization consisting of individual members should be in-
vited to send two delegates each to the conference.
The Congress Committee thus reorganized shall act as the local
representative of our Administrative Committee in all matters of Con-
gress propaganda, collection of funds, etc.
The reorganized Congress Committee shall immediately issue a
call for a convention to be held for the nomination of candidates to
the Jewish Congress. Each of the organizations described above, in-
cluding those represented in your reorganized Congress Committee
as well as those organizations which for any reason whatsoever have
failed to send representatives to the Conference, shall be called upon
to hold a meeting of its members, for the purpose of electing one dele-
gate to the nominating convention. Special notice of such meeting
must be given to the members of the organization by personal letter
or by publication in the newspapers.
The Rules of Election also provide for independent nominations
which may be made by 300 voters residing within your district; uniting
for the' purpose of making an independent nomination, and paying a
fee of $3.00 to your District Board of Elections.
The Nominating Convention shall elect a District Board of Elec-
tions (preferably a small working committee) which shall have charge
of the details of administration pertaining to the Congress elections.
THE FOLLOWING RULES SHOULD BE NOTED
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Section 1. Every Jew and every Jewess, 21. years of age or over,
shall be qualified to vote for representatives to the Jewish Congress.
ELECTION PRECINCTS
Section 10. Every society, lodge, branch, local, section, camp,
congregation, or any other organization consisting of individual mem-
bers, shall constitute an election precinct. A Congress district shall
comprise all election precincts whose meetings arc regularly held
within its boundaries.
NOMINATIONS BY CONVENTION
Section 25. In each Congress district, except as otherwise pro-
vided in Section 34, a convention shall be held for the purpose of nomi-
nating candidates for the Jewish Congress.
Section 28. Every election precinct shall elect one delegate to the
convention to be held in its Congress district.
Section 29. Every election precinct shall hold a meeting of its
members for the election of a delegate to the nominating convention
of its Congress district. Special notice of such meeting shall be given
ISAAC A. HOURWICH, Chairman.
MEYER L. BROWN
MAX L. HOLLANDER
GEDALIA BUBLICK
LOUIS LIPSKY
JACOB CARLINGER
FRANK F. ROSENBLATT
JOEL ENTEEN
General Board of Elections.
CONGRESS HAS BEEN SET FOR JUNE 10, 1917, IN EVERY
DISTRICT
' to the members of the precinct by personal letters or by publication in
the newspapers.
Section 30. The convention in each Congress district shall meet
upon notice, served by mail, to the delegates from each election pre-
cinct.
Section 31. The convention in every Congress district shall nomi-
nate two candidates for each one of the number of representatives
allotted to such districts.
Section 32. In all Congress districts, except in the city of New
York, the candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast at
the nominating convention shall be declared nominated.
Section 33. In the city of New York each delegate to a district
convention shall be entitled to inscribe on the ballot the names of
three-fifths of the number of candidates to be elected, a major fraction
of one to be counted as one; the candidates receiving the highest num-
ber of votes shall be declared nominated.
INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS
Section 35. Three hundred voters residing within the same Jew-
ish Congress district shall have the right to nominate a candidate for
representative to the Jewish Congress, by petition, upon payment of
a fee of $3.00.
1MM
■■■
MED
MOM
OW
MOO
MEM
■ Wi
MO
mom
MOM
MO
AMID
OM
MOB
IMO
ommo
OW
i ■ D
SEM
1MM
.WD
MOD
PLACE AND TIME OF ELECTION
•
Section 38. Every election precinct shall hold a meeting of its
members for the election of representatives to the Jewish Congress.
Special notice of such meeting shall be given to the members of the
precinct by personal letters or by publication in the newspapers.
Section 40. Any qualified voter desiring to vote by mail may pro-
cure from the Board. of Elections of his or her Congress district a
regular ballot, upon payment of 25c, and may vote for as many candi-
dates as may he voted for in said district, the said ballot to be re-
turned by mail, addressed to the District Board of Elections, and no
such ballot shall be opened before the day of election. Ballots re-
ceived postmarked after the day of election shall not be counted.
Section 41. No voter shall be entitled to more than one vote.
MANNER OF VOTING
Section 42. In all Congress districts, except in the city of New
York, each voter shall be entitled to vote for as many candidates as
are to be elected, by making an X against the name of each of them.
The candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be de-
clared elected.
Section 43. In the city of New York every voter shall be entitled
to vote for three-fifths of the number of candidates to he elected from
his Congress district; a major fraction of one to be counted as one.
The voter shall make an X against the name of each of the candidates
for whom he desires to vote. The candidates receiving the highest
number of votes shall be declared elected.
SOLOMON SUFRIN, Secretary.
BERNARD A. ROSENBLATT J. B. SALUTSKY
CYRUS L. SULZBERGER
B. ZUCKERMAN
General Board of Elections.
•MO
mom
MEM
IMO
1MM
MO
MEI
VIM
OW'
MOM
iMe
mom
mom
IMO
OM,
MOM
•=b
IMO
MI*
MD
OEM
1■1
MM1
MOS
mom
mop
mm•
ORM
MOM
MO
MEM
moo
woo
omm
OmM
WM
MEIN
ii mainimm amm in am m main iu m am ilm a amiu mminam mia lmia main am m i nam mm ana mi ni m m im m am maa mm a m mu n im m aam m ilimm im mili: