Friday, January 22, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

Federations Seek to Create Council to Air War's Effect on Welfare
`Civic Protective Agency' Plan to Unify Funds Cited by Sobeloff

Proposal To Combine Four National Groups Under One
Organization Believed Most Effective Step Ever
Taken to Unify American Jewry

Four Agencies

Centralization of the work of the four national civic
protective agencies—American Jewish Committee, Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith, American Jewish Con-
gress and—Jewish Labor Committee—was proposed in a
program outlined and presented for consideration for
immediate action at the 10th General Assembly of the

to unify the civic protection pro-
grams of national Jewish agen-
cies will be held at the Jewish
Community Council's second
open meeting Sunday at 8:30
p. in. in the auditorium of the
Center.
James I. Ellmann, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
who attended the General As-
sembly in Cleveland, will pre-
side at Sunday's discussion.
Details of the proposal to unify
the national Jewish organizations
will be outlined and reports of
the assembly will be presented by
Louis Bass, of the community
relation committee, and Aaron
Droock, vice-president of the
Council and chairman of its dis-
crimination committee.
(Complete details of the plan
proposed at the Federations'
General Assembly in Cleve-
land, the discussions on the
plan and the list of Detroit
delegates at the sessions will
be found in the reports on the
conference in this issue of The
Jewish News.)

Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, in Cleveland
last week-end.
The Assembly adopted a res-
olution authorizing the com-
mittee acting on the coordina-
tion of civic-protective agencies
to continue their efforts to
achieve a unified program for
the protection of the civic and
social status of the Jews of
America.
This decision was reached
after several hours of debate
during which it was indicated
that thre of the national agenc-
ies favor the latest proposals in
principle while a fourth is op-
posed to the plan but is pre-
pared to negotiate along the
lines proposed.

Sobeloff to Speak
At Miami Welfare
Meeting on Sunday

MIAMI, Fla.—Top givers to
the Greater Miami Jewish
Federation's 1943 welfare cam-
paign will meet at a "North
Carolina Breakfast" Sunday
morning, Jan. 24, to inaugur-
ate the 1943 fund-raising
campaign. The breakfast
meeting will be held at the
home of Mitchell Wolfson in
Miami Beach. Isidore Sobeloff,
executive director of the Jeiv-
ish Welfare Federation of De-
troit, will be the speaker at
this campaign meeting.

This is the most effective step
taken thus far in the effort to
effect unity in American Jewish
ranks. The outlined plan "seeks cil's Committee is that the Syn-
to set forth the broad outline, agogue Council and the Council
to the end that each of the agen- of Jewish Federations and Wel-
cies may indicate whether or not fare Funds each shall become
it accepts the program in prin- constituent members of the corp-
ciple and in the broad outlines oration at the start. The corpor-
and is prepared to join in having ation would then consist of six
rather than four agencies.
the program carried out."
Name Suggested
The corporation will be organ-
Suggesting "Central Civic Pro- ized upon acceptance by the four
tective Agency" as a possible agencies of this program; and
name for the new centralized the new agency will begin to
body, the plan outlined at the function as quickly as the ma-
Cleveland sessions declares:
chinery can be worked out for
"This program envisages each the transfer by the four agencies
of the above agencies in effect to the new organization of the
giving up its respective civic work of the agencies, their plants
protective functions to the cen- and materials, and after the ex-
tral agency to be organized, ecutive director of the new or-
which agency, to whatever ex- ganization shall have been em-
tent it is found feasible, will ployed.
Since there may be some re-
delegate to the several organiza-
tions such part of the functions servations about a permanent
of civic protective work as may commitment on the part of one
be found feasible and desirable. or more of the agencies, provi-
"It is hoped that the central- sion might be made, either in
ization of the civic protective the by-laws of the new corpar-
work will make it possible for ation or by agreement, by which,
some of the agencies to have after a period of experimentation
delegated to them certain of the which should not be less than
civic protective activities which three years, an agency may with-
they are now carrying on."
draw upon a stipulated notice
The projected program pro- in advance.
vides that a corporation be set
Functions of Corporation
up to carry on all American
The work, procedures and pro-
civic-protective work for the grams dealing with the problem
purpose of providing "an inte- of anti-Semitism in the - United
grated operating central body States shall be vested exclusively
for the defense of American in the corporation, and the corp-
Jews against anti-Semitism."
oration shall have full responsi-
Initial Membership
bility therefor. This would cover
It is proposed that the four research, investigation, fact-find-
national agencies should consti- ing, development and informa-
tute the initial membership and tional programs for the general
that other agencies shall be add- and Jewish community, consul-
ed. Each of the agencies is to be tation and preparation of pro-
entitled to one vote in the corp- grams dealing with Federal and
oration. The plan suggests mem- State legislation and all related
bership on the board as follows: subjects and the procedures to
"The board of directors- shall meet these problems.
consist of 30 members, five of
The corporation will have the
whom shall be nominated by exclusive authority to raise all
each of the four agencies and 10 funds required for its purposes,
additional directors, none of budget its resources, determine
whom shall be connected official- general policies and to operate
ly with any of the member agen- or delegate functional activities.
cies, to be elected by the mem- Central fund-raising and central
bers of the board appointed by budgeting shall replace the sep-
the four agencies, five to be se- arate current appeals and the
lected from a list of 10 names separate budgeting of the four
submitted by the Council of agencies for American civic-
Jewish Federations and Welfare protective work.
Funds, Inc., and five from a list
Use of Existing Units
of 10 names submitted by the
In order to carry out the pur-
Synagogue Council.
poses of the corporation, it will
"Each member of the board be necessary for each of the four
shall be entitled to one vote on agencies specifically to transfer
all matters within - the authority to the corporation all of its func-
of the board. All board actions tions and activities dealing with
shall be on the basis of decisions, American civic-defense problems,
of the majority. Directors shall including the administration of
hold office for one year. Each these services and such part of
of the four agencies shall be en- its plant, records, staff and ma-
titled to determine in its own chinery as may be required by
discretion the manner and the the corporation. As the basis for
method of selection of the five ascertaining reserved functions,
directors which such agency is the four agencies in their re-
entitled to nominate.
sponse to this communication,
Alternate Structure
will, specify the functions re-
The plan contains the following served by them.
additional provisions:
It is the intention of the pro-
An alternclive plan suggested posal involved here and that the
by several members of the Coun- new Corporation will use the re-

Campaign Procedures Must Be Related to Actual Presenf ,
Day Experience, His Report to General
Assembly Stresses
A discussion on the proposal

Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit, chairman of the national
committee on fund-raising policies, presented the report
of his committee to the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds at the 10th General Assembly session in
Cleveland, Sunday.

Pointing out that campargn
procedures must be related to
actual war-time experience, Mr.
Sobeloff stated that support of
Jewish welfare services for 1943
must take into account a series
of new factors created by the
war.
He stated that "the concern
over the large amount of sur-
plus income in the hands of con-
sumers indicates that more rath-
er than less income is potentially
available for war financing and
other general causes in which
the philanthropic programs both
here and abroad may be included
as one of the essential needs."

Names of French
Deportees Arrive

Outlining the developing War
Chest movements, Mr. Sobeloff
said that in cities where Jewish
welfare funds have entered the
War Chests "the Jewish group
has the continuing responsibility
of maintaining and developing
the interest of its public in the
merged campaign," and that the
Jewish group also has the assign-
ment "of keeping alert a sense
of affiliation with the Jewish
community . . . toward the day
after the emergency when special

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41.

BEN PUPKO'S

NEW YORK—From its over-
seas offices, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee has received lists
containing the names of more
than 5,000 Jews who last summer
and fall were taken from various
internment camps in unoccupied
France for deportation to the
Nazi East. The lists account for
more than a third of the Jews
expelled from unoccupied France
until Hitler seized that territory
on Nov. 11.
Interested persons may make
inquiry at the office of the Joint
Distribution Committee, 100 E.
42nd St., New York City.

sources, material, personnel dnd
procedures of the four agencies
to whatever extent this may be
feasible and determined to be
desirable by the new corporation.
This will involve the transfer,
in the first instance, of all activi-
ties to be conducted by them
under the supervision of the new
corporation.
The plan also involves the au-
thority to the new corporation
to employ an executive director,
administrative and technical and
other personnel to carry on the
work of the new corporation.
Speakers at the civic-protective
meeting included Max Simon of
Cleveland, Edgar J. Kaufmann of
Pittsburgh, George Z. Medalie,
representing the American Jew-
ish Committee, Carl Sherman,
American Jewish C o n g r es s,
Henry Monsky, president of Bnai
Brith, and Charles Sherman of
the Jewish Labor Committee.
William J. Shroder, chairman of
the Council's board, presided.

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