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THE JEWISH NEWS

Community Council's Fight
Against Discrimination

By AARON DROOCK

Chairman of the Discrimination
Committee of the Jewish
Community Council

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sible officials of the offending
firms, whether in the employ-
ment or executive offices. They
are given to understand the
anti-democratic, and un-American
character of their policy, and
are urged to change their prac-
tice. Generally it has been found
that such an approach by the
Community Council, acting in
the name of the organized Jew-
ish - community, produces results.
If the firm refuses to comply
with our request, it is informed
that steps will be taken to make
our information o available to the
public.

Th.e function and responsibil-
ity of the Jewish Community
Council is to coordinate and im-
plement all resources of the. De-
troit Jewish community. In De-
troit it is the Jewish Commun-
ity Council which concerns its-
. elf with problems of discrimina-
tion. The marshaling of com-
munity resources should be, all-
embracing and comprehensive,
incorporating therein all of the
Cooperate with CFEP
moral and financial support,
There is a close working re-
manpower and organizational lationship between the Presi-
strength of the community.
dent's Committee on Fair Em-
The Council, because it is the ployment Practices and the non-
centralizing and coordinating sectarian. Metropolitan Council
agency for approximately 200
on Fair Employment Practices
constituent organizations, is in and the Discrimination Commit-
the most advantageous positioh
tee of the Jewish Community
to focus and to make the best
Council. Th.e Council is cooper-
- use of the community's resour-
ating with national and local
ces and strength. To act as in- groups -
Which are seeking to
dividuals or even as separate
make the Committee on Fair
and distinct organizations in any
Employment Practices a perma
given instance of local or nation-
nent and effective department
al importance is ineffective, and
of our Government. The weight
in many instances destructive of
of public opinion should be fa-
• the best interests of the corn-
vorable to such legislation if
- munity. The Council as the uni-
public opinion can be aroused
fying agency in Detroit Jewish
to the dangers inherent in dis-
life can and does, bring ,to bear
crimination against all minority
_ the full moral force of the com-
groups. The Detroit Jewish
munity's voice and resources on
Community Council is of course
any . problem or activity Which
concerned with all phases of dis-
does or may effect the welfare
crimination. Aside from employ-
of the Detroit Jewish commun-
ment and other economic forms
ity.
of discrimination, there also ex-.
Constitutes a Challenge
ists discrimination in housing
The problem of discrimination and in education. While much
in employment is an old one. of th.e Council's activities is
. Under war-time conditions it has concerned with employment dis-
acquired even more significance, crimination, nevertheless the
as any practice which serves to Council is also fairly active in
undermine public morale and to its attempts to minimize and
decrease the available labor sup- eliminate, if possible, discrimin-
ply is a threat to the full pros- ation in the field of housing and
- ecution of the war. In* the post- education.
- war future it is likely to con-
stitute a challenge to a healthy
Mark Haas to Address
economic reconstruction of our
country. There are grounds for Home Relief on Monday
fear that when jobs will not be
Mark Haas, advertising man-
as plentiful as they are now, the
eld prejudices will come back ager of Radio Station WJR, will
into play, and that Jews and address Home Relief Society
members of other minority Monday, at a meeting at the
groups will again be set apart home of Mrs. Harry Rosman,
as the last to be hired and the 2234 W. Boston. Mrs. Arthur
first to be fired. It is therefore Gould will introduce Mr. Haas.
of extreme importance that ev-
A dessert luncheon at 1 p. m.
ery effort be made by a respon- will precede the meeting..
sible body to investigate and
Mrs. Irving H. Small, presi-
uncover every case of discrimin-
ation to take appropriate steps dent, invites members and
to correct abuses, and to help friends to hear Mr. Haas' ad-
create conditions which will eli- dress.
War Stamps and Bonds are
minate such practices altogether.
sold at each meeting by Mrs.
Aspects of Prejudice
Discrimination has many as- Sam Marks, chairman. Those de-
pects. "Want ads" may specify siring to be serviced. with Bonds
"Christian only". Jewish candi- should call UN. 1-3608.
dates for jobs, applying in re-
sponse to advertisements which Jewish Women Aid Drive
have . not contained any such For Control of Cancer
discriminatory notice, are told
that the vacancies have been
The Women's Field Army of
filled. At the same time other the American Society for the
candidates are interviewed and Control of Cancer is in the midst
hired. In one situation a firm of its eighth annual campaign
put through an urgent request to raise funds to carry on the
for 500 men. Of the 500 referred, work of cancer control.
80 were Jewish. 420 were hired
The Northwest District is un-
among them not one Jew. An-
other concern rejected a Jewish der the chairmanship of Mrs.
applicant, after a medical exa- Belle Bercowitz, who is assisted
mination by a company doctor. by Miss Lillian Schwartz, Mes-
This young man returned with dames Fannie Kaplan, Eva Trag-
certificates of excellent health ner, Minnie Josephson, Bertha
from three qualified physicians. Schrapp, Clara Ruben, Dorothy
He was still refused the job Wine, Hattie Cohen. The unit is
because allegedly he did not under the supervision of M r s .
pass the health standards of the Rose M. Cowan, department
company. In another case two president of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the six best students in a. spe- of the Jewish War Veterans.
cial course for war workers
were Jewish. The six were sent Jewish Leaders Coming
4o a firm which needed workers From Argentina, Chile
with their training. The four
non-Jews were hired, the two
NEW YORK (JPS)—Ten Jew-
Jews were not. Since then other ish leaders from Argentina and
non-Jews from that and subse- eight representatives of the
quent classes were engaged. But Jewish organizations and insti-
not one of the Jewish students tutions of Chile were reported
were employed. •
en route here to participate in
Getting Results
the* War Emergency Conference
When instances of discrimina- called by the World Jewish Con-
tion are reported to the Jewish gress and to be opened on May
Community Council action is ta- 20. The Conference will be at-
ken immediately to secure re- tended by representatives of
dress. The facts are checked Jewry in 36 other Allied, neu-
and investigated carefully so tral and liberated countries.
that action may be based on Delegates will formulate .pldns
accurate information. Contacts for the postwar reconstruction
are then made with the respon- of European Jew t ry
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Friday, April 2f,• 1944

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

(See Also Page 3)

AMERICA

A bill to create a temporary commission to
study racial and religious discrimination and
to recommend legislation, was approved by
Governor Thomas: E. Dewey, of New York,
who had advocated the creation of this corn-
mission after shelving the program proposed
by a previous committee which he had ap-
pointed last year.

The Federation Employment Service, the
central Jewish employment guidance agency
in New York City, is conducting a series of
drives to recruit Jewish manpower for work
in vital war jobs. According to Walter A.
Miller, acting presi,dent of the agency, Jews
now have the opportunity to enter fields from
which they were formerly barred. Federation
Employment Service is undertaking its seventh
recruiting program among Jews to help meet
the shipyard labor shortage.

Britain's White Paper policy was sharply
assailed by David Dubinsky, president of the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union,
in a speech before the American Federation
of Labor Forum on Labor and the Postwar
World in New York. The delegates ovationed
his statement that "very few can defend Bri-
tain's actions in Palestine and India." . . . Re-
calling that April 19 was the first anniversary
of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto, Mr. Dubin-
sky said that many of Europe'sJewish martyrs
might still have been among the living, had
Britain not shut the doors of Palestine.

A check for $103,110 representing the con-
tribution of 400 companies and their employes
in the millinery industry of Manhattan was
presented to New York City's Red Cross 1944
War Fund Campaign. This included a contri-
bution of $10,000 from the Joint Board, Mil-
linery Workers Union. An additional $50,000
from the industry is forthcoming. The industry,
in which the Jews form the majority, both as
employers and employes, is tripling its last
year's contribution to the Red Cross.

Dr. H. J. Corper, head of the research de-
partment of the National Jewish Hospital in
Denver, has developed a new tuberculin test
which will make it possible to diagnose tuber-
culosis within twelve to twenty-four hours
after the tuberculin is administered, the Science
News Letter reports. Dr. Corper applies a trans-
parent adhesive to the skin, enabling the phy-
sician to observe the reaction to the test. The
transparent adhesive avoids the "positive" re-
action, which is often caused by sensitivity to
ordinary adhesive and is mistaken for reaction
to tuberculin.

General Nogues, former Resident General of
Morocco, former collaborationist of Vichy and
the Nazis, who reportedly escaped to Portugal
with all the gold of the Bank of France in
Morocco, may be the dark horse tentatively
chosen as the premier of the new government
of France after the invasion, according to
Freda Kirchwey; editor and publisher of The
Nation, liberal weekly.

Failure of Secretary of State 'Cordell Hull
to make reference to the Palestine White Paper,
in his recent radio speech on foreign affairs,
is called "disappointing" by Jacob Fishman,
veteran Yiddish editor and Jewish Morning
Journal columnist.
Several prominent persons, whose names had
been used on endorsements of the "Protestant
Chaplains Assn., Inc.," have stated to PM, New
York daily, that this was done without their.
authorization. The organization has been set up
by Edward James Smythe, the fanatic Jew-
baiter and Catholic-hater, now under indict-
ment on sedition charges, and is described by
investigators as a "paper organization." These
included seven governors, four mayors, four
senators and 14 representatives.
Prof. Meyer Samuel Balaban, Jewish his-
torian, whose death in occupied Poland was
reported several months ago, committed suicide
by hanging, after the Nazis had ordered him
to write a history of the life of the Jews in
Poland under the Nazis, according to Dr. Ch.
Szoszkes, in the Jewish Morning Journal. Told
by the Nazis to stress the "autonomy" granted
the Jews by the introduction of ghettos, the
67-year-old professor asked that a spacious
room be assigned to him for this purpose. His
wish immediately granted, he retired and re-
mained secluded all that day and through the
night. Seeing that his light was still on late
in the morning, the Nazis broke in and found
him hanging wrapped in a prayer shawl.
Rare art treasures, part of the loot stolen
by the Nazis in Europe, are being smuggled on
Spanish ships into Latin America and sold to
a selected list of collectors and dealers in
Buenos Aires, according to a report in PM,
New York newspaper, from Ray Josephs, its
Montevideo correspondent. • Herman Goering
and other high Nazi officials are mentioned as
those behind the attempts to establish credits
in South America by disposing of the works
of the famous masters.

PALESTINE

With Turkish port and police officials co-,
operating to facilitate their departure for Pal-
estine, 245 Jewish refugees from Romania, who
arrived here aboard the small Bulgarian motor-
ship, Maritza, were en route to Haifa shortly
after their arrival without visas. The Jewish
Agency has arranged for their travel and ad-
mission into Palestine.

Deputy Police Superintendent J. P. I. Forde
narrowly escaped being hit when three shots
were fired at him by unknown persons outside
of the Rehov Hashachar police station here.
Hebrew and English biographies of General
Orde Charles Wingate will be published shortly
by the Jewish Agency Executive, it was an-
nounced by Dr. Bernard Joseph, acting head of
the Political Department of the Agency.
Broadcasts in Arabic, beamed by the Nazis
at the Middle East, call upon • the Arabs to-
sabotage the U. S. forces because they are
"Jew-controlled." Nazi broadcasts to the same
area call upon Negroes among the U. S. service-
men to join with the Arabs in "a revolt against
the Confederates and the Jews."

Deborah Auxiliary
Holds Party Tonight

Day liarty will be held at the
Jewish Community Center where
presentation of the Charter will
be reenacted. There will be
games, refreshments and enter-
From a small group of 10 tainment. Trophies acquired
members, Deborah Auxiliary of during the past five years wi41
Bnai Brith Young Women has be exhibited.
grown into an organization of
more than 75 members who are
an essential part of Bnai Brith,
and who have won respect and
esteem in District No. 6.

Clean, Light Wofk

We have jobs open in all depart-
ments, light clean work in our
stockroom mending, wrapping, etc.
Goed hours and pay.

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3800 18th St.

TE. 1-6700

FREDSON'S

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Restaurant and Dining Room

Much of the progress of this
organization is due to the guid-
ance of its sponsor, Mrs. William
J. Phillips, who was also the
first Michigan chairman of Jun-
ior Bnai Brith.

This Friday evening in celebra-
tion of the fifth anniversary of
Deborah Auxiliary, a Founder's

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but the heritage of years
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Separate Departments
For Men and Women

MASS MEETING

OPENING OF $40,000 CAMPAIGN

SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1944, at 2:00 P. M.

at

Congregation Bnai Moshe, Dexter and 'Lawrence

of

YESHIVATH CHACHMEY LUBLIN

and the

DETROIT HEBREW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

Detroit

RABBI WOLF GOLD, president of World Mizrachi Organ-
ization, GUEST SPEAKER.

Birmingham Grosse Pointe

A. REICHMAN, journalist, representing the Morning Journal.

Daniel Temchin, Clirman

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