Friday, December 27, 1946
Agency Discounts
IRO Provision
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Aids Donor Event
Jewish Immigration
Is Called Unaffected
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Gen-
eral Assembly of the United Na-
tions coil-eluded the second part of
its first session approving the
charter of the International Ref-
ugee Organization and a $160,000,-
000 budget by a vote of 30 to 5.
The negative votes were cast by
Soviet Russia, the Ukraine, Byelo-
Russia, Poland and Yugoslavia.
Earlier, the General Assembly
established the Trusteeship Coun-
cil which is to take over terri-
tories formedly administered un-
der mandates of the League of
Nations. It also declared genocide
—the mass extermination of racial
groups—a violation of international
law and proposed an international
convention against the crime.
MRS. JULES RItAl T
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Met Opera Star
JNF Guest Artist
U. S., CANADA SIGN
At least 15 member states of
the United Nations will have to
ratify the IRO constitution before
the organization is able to start
the complicated job of dissolving
the refugee camps in Europe and
sending the displaced persons
either to new countries or to their
native lands. The first two coun-
tries to sign the IRO constitution
were the United States and
Canada.
The Jewish Agency office in
New York issued a statement em-
phasizing that the clauses con-
tained in the IRO constitution
urging the organization to take
Into consideration the "apprehen-
sion" that might be felt by the
indigenous population of the non-
self-governing countries" in set-
tling refugees in their lands, can
in no way affect Jewish immigra-
tion to Palestine. These clauses,
the Jewish Agency pointed out,
.ca”not override rights granted to
• -ws under the Palestine man-
te, The statement of the Agency
reads as follows:
"The Jewish Agency is statisfied
that this stipulation has nothing
to do with Jewish immigration in-
to Palestine and resettlement
therein, should the IRO undertake
to be of assistance in that respect.
GOVERNED BY MANDATE
"The international law govern-
ing the facilitation of Jewish im-
migration into Palestine by the
Mandatory Power is the Mandat-
for Palestine whose binding force
has been recognized by Art. 80 of
the United Nations Charter and
the resolution of the last Assem-
bly of the League of Nations of
April 18, 1916, concerning man-
dated territories;
"Only through an amendment of
the Charter in accordance with
the procedure established In Ar-
Richard Tucker Slated
for Program Jan. 28
Plans for the donor event of
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jew-
ish Nationat Fund will be dis-
cussed at a board meeting at 12:30
n. m. Monday at the home of Mrs.
Samuel Brody, 17537 Muirland ave-
nue, Mrs. Jules Kraft, publicity
chairman, has announced.
Guest speaker at the affair Jan.
28 at Masonic Temple will be
Dr. Israel Goldstein, former presi-
dent of the Jewish National Fund
of America and acting president
of the Zionist Organization of
America.
Richard Tuck e r, Metropolitan
Opera star, former cantor and
brother-in-law of Jan Peerce, will
be guest artist. Mrs. Philip Cutler
program chairman.
Twelve contributions of $100 or
-ore to the JNF were cited at a
•event board meeting.
They are Excelsior Machinery
$500; Mrs. Louis Fineman,
'250; Mrs. Anna Goldberg, $250;
Mrs. John Hayman, $250; Mrs.
Samuel Heyman, $250; Leon Kay,
$100; Levin-Shevin Co., $300; Lion
Steel Co., $100; Salco Products
Co., $150; Congregation Bnai Zion,
$100; Herman Radner, $100; and
Abe Kasle, $100.
tide 108 or through the replace-
ment of a new regime for Pales-
tine would the binding force of
the Mandate be abrogated.
"The Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine is furthermore aware of the
limited purpose of this provision.
As part of the IRO's terms of
reference it has been designed for
the IRO's own particular activi-
ties in the sphere of resettlement
and can apply only to that one
specialized organization."
One Out of Every 4 Jews in Palestine
Is Wage Earner, Says Congress Report
BASLE (Palcor) — Ellezer Kap-
lan, treasdrer of the Jewish Agen-
cy, in an economic report before
the World Zionist Congress, called
for the establishment of two hold-
ing companies with an initial
capital of $8,000,000 and $10,000,-
000 to float loans for Jewish con-
struction and settlement in Pales-
tine over a 10 year period.
He appealed to world Jewry to
purchase preferred stock in the
companies for which the Jewish
Agency would guarantee a mini-
mum dividend.
Kaplan reported that 25 percent
of Jewish Palestine's population of
630,000, or one in every four, are
wage earners. Eleven percent of
the wage earners, he reported were
enraged in agricultural work as of
1945, 29 percent were in industry
nd handicrafts, 16 percent are in
trade, 10 percent In professions,
five percent in transportation and
three percent in building trades.
About eight percent, he said, are
employed by the military. Thanks
to military projects, the number
of wage earners in trade and in-
dustry rose from 20 to 29 percent,
or In round figures from 38,000 in
1939 to 66,000 in 1946. The number
of wage earners in the citrus In-
dustry however, dropped 11 per-
cent as a result of the war.
Referring to the Arab League's
boycott of Palestine, Kaplan de-
clared that while some branches
of Jewish economy have suffered,
the effects of the boycott have
been greatly exaggerated. He stres-
sed that the boycott Is not a
spontaneous move of the Arab
masses but was imposed on them
by their respective governments
which prohibit the importing of
Jewish goods.
The Palestine government has
again demonstrated its inefficiency,
or unwillingness, to discharge its
natural duty of preventing dis-
crimination against inhabitants of
the country. If the government
wished, Kaplan said, methods could
very well have been devised to
counteract the boycott.
Kaplan reported the total in-
debtedness of the agency and Ke-
ren Haycsod at the end of 1945
as about $14,600,000 while assets
totaled $30,304,000. Out of $70,728,-
000 raised to date by ;{cren Haye-
sod, $18,800,000 or roughly 27 per-
cent was spent for agricultural
settlement; over $4,000,000 or six
percent for urban colonization;
$17,000,000) or abou:. 13 percent for
rescue of European Jews and im-
migration.
Refugee Society
Starts Up in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba—A "Society of
Former Ghetto and Concentration
Camp Prisoners in Cuba" has been
organized in this city by Dr. Henry
Shoskes, HIAS (Hebrew Shelter-
ing and Immigrant Aid Society)
chief of Latin-American immigra-
tion activities, who is here to plead
the cause of some 200,000 Jews
who still remain in the displaced
persons camp of Europe.
Not permitted to work because
they are classified as "tourists,"
the 30-odd former Nazi victims
who fled here with HIAS's help
are working out a production co-
operative project until such time
as they will be granted the right
to go freely into the Cuban labor
market.
An elective board of five has
been promised vigorous coopera-
tion by Havana's Jewish leaders,
who, unaware of the tragic histo-
ries of these immigrants, had pre-
pared no program of active assist-
ance.
A record crowd of Cuban Jews,
overflowing the Jewish Center
here, heard Dr. Shoskes open the
first HIAS appeal for funds in the
quarter-century in which the im-
migration agency has maintained
a major part in the life of Cuban
Jewry.
Council Speaker
STONE SOAP CO.
JWV
Broadcast
Epsein, Detroit News correspond.
ent, spoke.
The officers are: Commander,
Russell H. Greenberg; senior vice
commander, Burton Siegel; junior
vice commander, Norman Peck;
adjutant, Arnold Cohen; quarter-
master, Al Shacket; judge advo-
cate, Oscar Freedenberg; surgeon,
Dr. N. L. Feldman; chaplain, Leo
Becker; patriotic instructor, Al
Davidson; officer of the day, Eu-
gene Radding; sergeant-at-arms,
Sol Ralkow; color sergeant, Myron
Handelman; color guards, Bernard
Dizilt and Art Byer; color bearers,
Maurice Mansfield and Don Gil-
bur; trustees, Bill Schwartzman,
Lloyd Finsilver and Harvey Rice.
Lt. Roy F. Green paid the su-
preme sacrifice as an Air Corp
officer at Cariza in the Carri-
bean. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Green-
By DR. PERRY P. BURNSTINE berg, parents of Lt. Green, pre-
sented the new post with the
THE MILITARY Ball committee American and Jewish War Vet-
will sponsor a social evening eran flags.
Saturday, at the JWV auditorium,
8212 Twelfth street. The Miltimore
THE LT. LEVIN POST basket-
School of Dance and Music will ball team lost a thrilling game
present a program including sing- at the Jewish Community Center
ing, dancing and acrobats.
gym Sunday. The victors were the
The ball co-chairmen, Messrs undefeated Harry Thomas Strang-
Norman Berkley and Rudolph ers.
Stein, report a brisk sale of tick-
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ets for the affair which will be
held on Washington's Birthday,
JACK PERLMAN, commander
Feb. 22, in the Masonic Temple. of the Robert Rafelson Post, an-
Top notch entertainment and two nounces that his anti-defamation
dance bands will be featured.
committee is equipped to receive
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complaints and take suitable ac-
THE LT. ROY F. GREEN Post tion on cases presented. This com-
No. 525 was instituted and the mittee will work In cooperation
officers installed Dec. 22. Clifford with the departmental committee.
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of Palestine Jewry — are affiliated with
HISTADRUT, the organization of the
Jewish worker-pioneer.
HISTADRUT
cooperates with the Jewish
Agency in promoting irrigation, aviation,
navigation, housing, educaton. HISTA-
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cooperatives, the foundation of the cooper-
ative Jewish commonwealth.
HISTADRUT
provides the manpower that
builds and defends the Jewish National
Home. Its settlements welcome refugees
and train them for a productive life. HIS-
TADRUT maintains vocational schools and
Palestine's public medical system.
HISTADRUT
leads in charting progressive
social legislation, protection of women and
child workers. HISTADRUT established a
comprehensive unemployment fund and old
age pension for workers.
Opening of Detroit's 1947 Campaign for
HISTADRUT
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and entered Palestine "illegally".
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