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Friday, February 23, 1945

THE JEVV1SH NEWS

Jewish homeland Is Backed
By World Trade Unionists

Gets ZOA ' Citation

Zionist Committee
Named to Press
Silver's Policies

Histadruth Delegates to World Trade Union Conference
Hits Palestine Administration for Aiding. Rival. Organ-
izations Disrupt Cooperations Between Workers

LONDON (JPS Palcor)—The World Trade Union Con-,
ference here adopted a resolution calling for international.
action to protect Jewish rights everywhere and demanding
that the Jewish people "be enabled to continue rebuilding
Palestine as their national Homeland."
The resolution was carried by an overwhelming majority,
including the aelegates from Britain, its dominions, the U. S.,
France and the USSR. .
.
LONDON (Palcor)L-The Palestine Government was
accused of "lending support to organization passionately
opposed to every fOrrri of co-operation between Arab. and
Jewish workers," in a speech delivered at the World Trade
Union Conference by Aaron Rabinovich, one of the delegates
of the Histadruth, Jewish Palestine's Federation of Labor.

These organilations (Arab) fre- 4'
quently take the side of employ- suggestion came from the His-
ers against workers, he said.
tadruth • delegation.- The Arab
Rabinovich told of well-devel- delegate against whom the. His-
oped Jewish trade unions a nd tadruth representatives protested
co-operatives in pales-tine, main was Sent from Jerusalem, with
taming conditions unparalleled in the support of the Palestine Gov-
the Middle East. Twenty percent ernment, as spokesman for the
of the Histadruth's members, he Arab Labor Federation which is
said, have volunteered for service opposed to Jewish labor.
with His Majesty's forces. He
also told of nascent Arab union- Moslem Parley, Denounces
ism aided by Jewish labor, and Anti-Jewish Agitation,
estimated at 12,000: the; number
PARIS (JPS) — Anti-Jewish
•of A r. a b s belonging to these
agitation in. North Africa, fre-
groups.
Drawing an analogy with other quently resulting in riots, has
Middle East countries, he pointed I been denounced at conference
out that they were backward in 1 ;here of Moslems from North
residing in the French
labor organization and far from Africa '
capital
. P at-ti cu1 arly stress i ng in-
real democracy.
termittent outbreaks in Tunis,
Claims 50,900 Members
Algiers and Morocco, the resold-
Earlier John Asfour, an Arab tion adopted by the conference
delegate representing the organ- here charged that these were or-
ization accused by Rabinovich of ganized by pro-fascists.
•
disrupting, with Government ai d,
Ahmed,Balloul, chairman of the
efforts at Arab-Jewish relations, conference, said that "there exists
said he represertted an organiza-1 a cabal of Arab effendis in North
tion claiming 50,000 members and Africa who incite the Arab masses
12. co-operative groups. !against the Jews in order to di-
- He said that his organization tverti attention f r o nt their own
succeeded in improving labor con- misdeeds."
ditions while *simultaneously en- I
gaged in combating foreign rule Pro-Arab Asks Outlawing
and the anti-labor activity of the of Jewish Institutions
Zionist labor organizations. He
LONDON (Palcor) — The out-
contended that the Arabs fought lawing of Jewish Palestine's Na-
side by side with the Allies in tional institutions as a penalty
the last war fOr obtaining free-
_ dom. whch had . been promised, for the assassination of.. Lord
Moyne and the attempted assassi-
but which was denied them • after nation of former High Commis-
the war. Their country was muti- sioner Sir Harold McMichael, was
fated, he alleged; and placed un- iproposed by Richard R. Stokes,
der a mandate, with the addi= 1 Laborite M.P. and pro-Arab. Co-
tional penalty of establishing i n lonial Secretary Oliver Stanley
their :territory a
National Home ; replied in writing that all armed
for the. Jews.
- i• organizations, such as the Jewish
The sole aim of the Histadruth,1 terrorist gangs responsible for the
he alleged, is to establish a Zion- !outrages referred to by Stokes,
ist state at the expense of
illegal.
llegal.
placed Arab peasants and to oust
On July 20, 1939, Stokes, de-
-Arab 'workers.
tended extremist Arab interests;
on March 6, 1940, he defended
Conference Relects Plea
the Government land regulations
To Bar Arab :.!'• elega-te
LONDON (JTA) --- A demand restricting Jewish land purchases,
that one of the Arab delegates and on March 20, 1940, he raised
the question whether there were
---, from Palestine not be recognized = "German agents among the illegal
by the World Trade Union Con- Jewish immigrants."
•ference, now meeting here, was
rejected-by the credentials com
mittee of the Conference. The

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Prof. Einstein Heads

Committee to Plan
Fete for Dr. Siker

NEW YORK Prof. Albert

heads the. list of promin-
Group of Prominent Leaders Einstein
ent leaders Who are acting as
Organized fa Function
co-chairmen of the , testimonial
dinner being tendered to Dr.
Within ZOA Scope

PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Pierre
Van Paassen, author of "The
Forgotten Ally," has been award-
ed a citation by the Zionist Or-
ganization of America in recog-
ntion of "his magnificent cham-
pionship of human justice and
particularly his masterful and
fearless advocacy of the estab-
lishment of Palestine as a free
and democratic Jewish Common-
wealth."

U. S. Palestine
Insured Parcel
Service Resumed

Detroiters will be glad to know
that insured parcel post service
between the United States and
Palestine has been resumed, as of
Feb. . 1, with a maximum of 22
pounds at an insured valuation
at not more than $100.
This announcement was re-
vealed in. the Postal Bulletin is-
sued in Washington. Following
is a list of rates, in 5-pound
lots: 5 lbs., % cents; 10 lbs.,
$1.73; 15 lbs., $2.75; 20 lbs., $3.45;
and 22 lbs., $3.73. A one-pound,
parcel may be shipped for 35
cents. Hence; it would be cheap-
er to send a maximum sized
parcel instead of several small
ones.
Roscoe B. Huston, Detroit
postmaster, this week announced
an exhibit depicting how serer-
icement's mail is processed for
overseas shipment under auspi-
ces of the U. S. Navy's Official
Navy Mail Service, at the J. L.
Hudson Co. The exhibit opened
Feb. 8 and will run through
e
Feb. 17.

NEW YORK—The American
Zionist Policy Committee, which',
will function nationally and
locally- within the framework of
the Zionist Organization of Am-
erica in order to "press for a
militant and dynamic Zionist
policy such as has been exempli-
fied by the successful leadership
of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver," was
launched by a group of promin-
ent Zionist leaders throughout
the country, headed by Charles
J. Rosenbloom of Pittsburgh.
In a letter to a number of
leading American .Zionists,
Rosenbloom, who is treasurer of
the United Palestine Appeal-and
former treasurer of the United
Jewish Appeal, listed the pur-
poses of 'the American Zionist
Policy Committee as follows:
1. To deepen Zionist thought
and the understanding of Zionist
problems on the part of our lay
leaders and the rank and file.
I 2. To advocate and press for a
militant and dynamie Zionist
policy such as has been exempli-
fied by the successful leadership
of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.
3. To strengthen the Zionist
Organization of America from
within by developing a vigorous
and informed public opinion
among its membership and an
intelligent interest in national
affairs.
4. To revitalize the democratic
principle basic to our movement
so that the composition and poli-
cies of the national administra-
tion shall reflect the will and
temper of the great body of
American Zionists.

Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland,
on March 21, at Hotel Commo-
dore.
The dinner will pay -tribute to
Dr' • Silyer for his outstanding
leadership of American Jewry
over many years and for his con-
tributions to American thought
and public welfare: Dr. -Silver
served as national chairman of
the United Palestine Appeal for
seven years. His vigorous lead-
ership of the American. Zionist
Emergency Council throughout
the past year is generally re-
garded as his most notable ac-
complishment.
Mark Sugarman is treasurer
and Abraham Goodman, Treasur-
er of the Zienist Organization of
America, is secretary of the ,din-
ner committee, which is still in
formation.

Jewish Information
Bureau in 10th Year

YORK—The 10th anni-
versary of the establishment of
the Jewish Information Bureau,
105 Park, will be observed with
a public reception to members
and exhibit of historical material,
on March 22, according to an an-
nouncement made by Louis Le-
vine, chairman of the administra-
tive committee.
The Bureau renders a free ser-
vice to the public by answering
inquiries and supplying data on a
large variety of subjects relating
to the work of Jewish organiza-
tions and institutions, including
religious, philanthropic, cultural
and literary endeavors of every
kind.

College of Jewish Studies
Plans $500,000 Project
CHICAGO, (JTA)—The Col-
lege of Jewish Studies, which
trains teachers for Hebrew and
Sunday Schools and for Jewish
adult education classes, plans to
erect a $500,000 building after
the war, it was announced at the
annual meeting of the Board of
Jewish Education recently.
Dr. Samuel Blumenfield, dean
of the college, surveyed the 20-
year development of - the insti-
tution, and Dr." Judah Goldin,
first to occupy the new chair of
Jewish studies at Duke Uni-
versity, Durham, N. C., deliv-
ered the principal address.

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Bnai Brith Has an Important
Share in Palestine's
Reconstruction PrOgram

Fornir U .M. Student
Pearl Harbor Hero

Lt. Stanley Caplan, skipper of
the USS minesweeper "Long",
which went down in action in
the Philippine area, was one -of
the heroes of Pearl Harbor. He
took command of a destroyer
during the sneak attack at Pearl
Harbor, although he had had only
eight months of sea duty.
Then an ensign, he found him-
Self-senior officer of the destroy-
er "Aylwin" during the surprise
assault and won a commendation
from the secretary of the navy
for his command of the ship for
36 hours.
Lt. Caplan, 30, was born in
Elmira, N. Y., where his father,
Mike, resides. However,, he was
a 1939 graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan and was well
known to many Detroiters. He
enrolled in the U. S. Naval Re-
serve in 1940 and was commis-
sioned in February of 1941. He
Was assigned / to the "Aylwin." in
the following April,

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in tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Boris
D. Bogen and the late Dr. I. M. Rubinow.

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memory of these two leaders and at the same time to honor the
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