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: