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1926

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THE ONLY JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1926
PROTEST AGAINST
REGISTRATION BILL

VOL. XIX. NO. 19.

Distress of the Jewish Weavers in Poland NEW YORK TEMPLES
TO BE AMALGAMATED
A Chapter in Polish-Jewish Life.

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Section Two

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Civil Liberties Union and Labor Fed-
eration Oppose Pending Laws.

Emanu-EI and Beth El, Two WASHINGTON.—(J. T. A.) — A
delegation representing the American
Largest, Consider Build-
Civil Liberties Union appeared before
ing on Astor Site.
The sufferings of the labor masses , many of the other towns and indus• '
the Ilouse immigration committee in

By BEN-MOSHEH

protest against the deportation and
have been immortalized by all the I trial villages where the Jewish weaver
nations in their monumental literary is being ground to death today in the i NEW YORK.— (J. T. A.) — The registration bills. Their protest was
of
unemployment
and
pay-
amalgamation
of
Temple
Emanu-El
c?
r
y
m
,
,ritsy
directed chiefly against the abandon-
and artistic records; they form chap-
ue s r t ment of the present live-year limita-
, is t, \r„., large
e in i o n l e NIlee,thiEulr,kthe
ters in social-political history
and les
tion period, after which aliens may
The weavers are perhaps less I temp
What Englishman does not know of known to Jewry than any other class consideration, according to rumors
IMMEDIATE SERVICE
be deported.
the machine-breakers and their move- in Jewish life. We follow with in- reported. Committees representing not Chairman
Johnson called attention
2940 SIXTH STREET
ment, that first fight of the English terest the future of Russian Jewry, both liberal congregations have al- to the fact that the committee has al-
ready
met
and
have
tentatively
weavers
against
the
introduction
of
ready informally decided to retain the
the growth of Jewish agriculture;
At Grand River
machinery. There is an honorable funds are provided for the building agreed upon a plan of action.
five-year limitation period and, more-
Among the activities which the over, not to deport aliens for illegal
place in history for the great strike of ritual baths of medical aid insti-
Glendale 8513
un-
of the Lyons weavers in France; Ger- lotions; of credit and savings an s
entry alone, if they entered prior
hardt Ilauptman has immortalized the for Jewish shopkeepers and Jewish I consolidated
dertake, as these
are being discussed
congregations
wi
to July 1, 1924, but the comniittee
struggle and the misery Of the Ger- artisans, but who ever things of help- by members of Emanu-El and Beth- intends to recommend the deporta-
man weavers in his play, The Weav- ing the Jewish weavers who stand on El, will be the erection and conduct tion only of otherwise undesirable
of chapels and religious schools un- aliens. Chairman Johnson also stated
ers." But has anybody ever thought the verge of starvation?
the hard struggle of the Jewish
Hard is the lot of the Jewish der the auspices of the new congre- that the registration bill has not yet
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weavers—surely the best productive
of
sufferings
gation in various parts of the city. been taken up.
in Poland, full
elements in the Jewish working-class weaver
and struggles—both mental and These will be maintained from the
Professor Ernst Freund of the Chi-
PASSOVER GREETINGS
—they have gone through struggles
of gains and vic- great endowment fund which the cago University Law School objected
full, too,
and sufferings enough beginning with physical;
to
that feature of the bill, placing the
tories
to
crown
the
struggles,
but
amalgamation
will
build
up.
TO EVERYBODY
their unorganized outbreak in Bialy-
The present rabbis of Temple burden of proof of an undeportable
full with the victims of the
stok, which simply could not be kept more
struggles. It sounds somewhat para. Emanu-El are the Rev. Dr. II. G. Ene- status upon the alien, whim, he
back, and going on to their organized doxical when you go deeper into the low and the Rev. Nathan grass and stated, was opposed to all the funda-
movement of today.
matter—the hands which weave the the present rabbis of Temple Beth-El mental principles of American legal
The poet Gordon is alone in having silken bridal gown of the rich man's are the Rev. Dr. Samuel Schulman procedure, which has always imposed
the burden of proof upon the prose-
,
H. L. HERSCHBERG, Prop.
the Rev.
Dr. Simon
made an attempt in his "Ilersheb daughter, or the silken Talith for the and Ben
Altheimer
is the Cohen.
president of cuting authorities.
Bubrooner" to give a dramatic rep- rich man's so n-in-law, the hands
24 West Jefferson Ave.
continually
cloths
of
Temple
Beth-El;
David
M.
Bressler,
Representatives of the American
resentation of the life of the Jewish which handle
Phone Cadillac 6697
strength enough honorary secretary; Otto E. Dryfoos, Federation of Labor and the Brother-
Talith-makers, but where else in our velvet and silk have themselves
a beg- treasurer. The trustees are Felix M. hood of Locomotive Engineers sub-
literature
or
history
do
we
for
only
to
weave
COMPLETE LINE OF NOVEL - I Jewish
Warburg (honorary), Saul Bernstein,
the protest of organized labor
find a representation of the Jewish
pack. are not enough to describ' David Dinkelspiel, Jacob L. Frankel, mitted
Words
against any extension of the present
TIES, FAVORS, DECORA - workers, and what Jew knows of the gar's
Kalter, Mrs. William Klingen- law regarding deportation which,
life of the Bialystok weavers, or the the poverty and misery of the Jewish Max
TIONS, ETC.
ey
stein, Benjamin S. Moss, Car os -
textile workers of Lodz, or the spin- weavers in Poland. From their black, berger, Leopold Stern, Myron Sulz- they contended, is adequate.
principle
— —
lack-luster eyes there stares at you berger, Ludwig Vogelstein, David A. also objected to the whole
Morris II. of alien registration. Others who op-
a horrible hopeless despair; their Brown, Sydney II. Herman,
' d the measure ere: w Allen S.
faces are living witnesses to the mis- Rothschild and Roger W. Straus.
Olmstead, a Philadelphia attorney,
erable, soul-breaking struggle which
Louis Marshall is the president of who presented the witnesses; Francis
they have had to wage for their right Temple Emanu-El; William I. Spiegel- Fisher Kane, former United States
to work, a struggle which has not berg, secretary; Henry H. Tooch, district attorney of Philadelphia; Rev.
treasurer. The trustees are: Henry W. L. Darby of the Federal Council
ended to the present day.
In the factory towns, where the J. Bernheim, Philip J. Goodhar, Dan• of Churches; Father W. T. Montivan
bulk of the Jewish weavers are con- del Guggenheim, Irving Lehman, Ben- of the National Catholic Welfare
centrated, you can even today conic jamin Mordecai, Samuel M. New-
across a worker with a deep scar on burger, Adolph S. Ochs, Edward Board.
his face—a memento of the time Schafer, William I. Spiegelberg, 61 PROSELYTES IN 16 YEARS
when the Jewish worker had to resist 'teary M. Toch, Arthur Zinn.
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—Sixty-one
being forcibly removed from the loom
proselytes were accepted into Judaism
We extend our sincere
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—An agree- in the London Liberal Synagogue dur-
or to protect his fellow-worker who
greetings and apprecia-
ment between the Zionists and non- ing the last 15 years, according to the
was too weak to defend himself.
tion to our friends and
The Jewish weavers will never for- Zionists on the board of the Vienna report of Claude Montellore, leader of
Bialystok
suf-
Kehillah concerning the work for the Liberal Synagogue here.
patrons and to the Jewish
get the Czarist days:
fered as much as any other industrial Palestine has been concluded.
Community for our con-
town of former Russia. But the Jew-
tinued success.
ish we-avers of that part of former
Russia which is now Poland resisted
stubbornly all the attacks of the re-
actionary government which sought
SPECIAL NOTICE
to uproot them. They knew no fear,
TO
ANNOUNCE
TO
YOU
THAT
neither the iron bars of the dark
WE BEG
prisons nor the knout of the Cos-
sacks, nor exile to Siberia could
daunt their courage. War is war,
and in war only the brave can win.
At.its price and over, the new go-degree,
So it was that the Jewish weavers
eight-cylinder Cadillac is selling faster than
emerged victorious from their strug-
gle. Already in the days of Czarist
We will re-open Tuesday Evening, April 6, and will be glad to
reaction they had won for themselves
all other makes combined.
see you again.
an honorable position in the textile
industry. They won even more—a
The significant thing about this momen-
special privilege—the Jewish weav-
ers gained for themselves the right
tous movement is the public state of mind
not only of being employed but in
the
newly-erected
factories
Jewish
about Cadillac which it reveals—the stead-
KOSHER DELICATESSEN
and Christian workers were to be
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taken in equal proportion.
fast trust of millions that any new Cadillac
8900 TWELFTH STREET
Good times, indeed, the Jewish
Empire 2981
Empire 6860
weaver never knew; life was all a
is necessarily a better Cadillac.
PHONE US AT ANY TIME
ceaseless torture. Sometimes he had
WE DELIVER —
bread and loaves as well, sometimes
Thousands of new owners each month
a meal enough for one had to be
shared and sometimes he had to go
arc turning to Cadillac, content in the
hungry—on the whole, he managed
with considerable difficulty to get
knowledge that the new Cadillac alone
along decently.
Then the great war came and hit
can
give them the dignity and luxury which
the Jewish working class, the weavers
like the rest. The young, the best
have
always, and today more than ever,
and most virile among them, were
snatched away to the battlefield; the
set
the
Cadillac apart.
Ger-
rest fell into the hands of the
man occupation. The weaving mills
had to stop work and the Jewish
weaver to avoid dying with his fam-
ily of starvation had to become an
ordinary navvy and work on the
roads and in the woods fe lling tim-
of
e slaves for
ber. They had to work lik
the German taskmasters, and the
wages were next to nothing. Disease
became rife among the weavers; con-
sumption wasted them, ate their
lungs out; hunger became a constant
companion and life was a wreckage.
But even this did not crush the
courage and energy of the stubborn,
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hardened Jewish weavers. They re-
i
sisted the onslaught their
of mper-
gh wild mountain
tractless
deserts,
throu
sonal enemy, and meanwhile resur-
CROSS
AV ith exotic Oriental
rection
came
for
Poland
and
the
passes from bazaars pulsing
gs have traveled.
weavers rushed back to their mills—
life, these Persian and Chinese ru one of the finest
to their several hells with their grim,
with the result that we now offer s at era-making
darkened windows; they threw them-
collections ever shown in our studio
selves once more into the striving
abyss of the factories as if seeking
terms.
among the dumb machines to drown
their sufferings and bitterness and
despair.
Back at their looms the Jewish
weavers hoped that now at last they' '
would have no big fortunes, indeed,
Serspi-22 ft. 3 in x 11 ft. 8 in.. regularly $1200....5 6 695
but at least a chance to earn their ;
51,0
daily bread. But it proved a false
Arak—17 ft. 2 in. x 10 ft. 6 in., regularly 5000........
II It. I in.. regularly 31900 ...... MAW
hope. The war brought hard times,
Gulliesn-18 ft. x
..... ..... 500
but the fall of the exchange after the
Serapi—17 ft. 2 In. x 12 ft., regularly 5750. .... ..
775
ft., regularly S975 ....... 5q5
war brought still harder times. In
Chinese-18 ft. x 12
Chinese-16 It. • II ft., regularly 5795 .............. $ 750
figures, wages kept on rising, reached
ft., regularly 51,000 ...... . ........
95
Ssrouk—I2 ft. x 9
fabulous AMA, millions; wages were '
$050
......
4 in., regularly
big but not big enough to buy bread.
Fff
Kerman—I3 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft.
........
10 ft.. regul arly $ 750 ....... .5 195
And the struggle for existence had to
Tabriz-13 ft. 6 in
rspi--11
ft.
8
in.
x
8
ft.
9
in..
regularly
start all over again. Grabski put a
Se
...... $ 175
Ispahan--11 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 8 in., reltulsrlY 3 2"
375
stop to everything—his "reforms" led
First grade 9 x 12 Chinese reduced to ................
to the terrible crisis, and the first
to be hit was the worker. Even if ,
he was at work, he got no wages,
there was no cash with which to pay
Lilahan—Ayerage 7 It. x 5 ft., reduced to ...... 5115 to Slit
him. The factories began to close
down one after the other and thou-
Sarouks—Average 5 ft. 6 In. x 3 ft. 6 in
reduced to ................................. $70 to 5 5125
them-
1 to SS
sands of Jewish weavers found
to....5
.
x 3 ft. 6 in., reduced
selves in the streets face to face)
Trans—Average 6 ft. 4 ft. 6 in. 2 It. 10 in ,
25
with merciless hunger. The end does:
Beluehistima—Average
reduced to ................................ $20 to
not seem to be anywhere in sight.
Hunger is no comrade. And the re- I
Detroit Branch
cult is that one of the most splendid
branches on the tree of Jewish pro-
Jewish
weaver
of
lefierson at
ductive labor, the
Cass Ave. at York
Poland, seems to have been con-
Rug Department, will be present t
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as
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well as in Ukrainian, according to
decision of the district executive
committee. This rule also applies to
the city councils, committees and sub-
committees.

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