Friday, April 20, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
PWO Branches
Open Fund Drive
N. Y. Cast to Present
'Who Is Guilty' At
Masonic This Sunday
Pioneer Women's Organiza-
tion's Detroit branches announce
the opening of the third annual
child rescue fund drive to be
conducted during April and May.
A call has gone forth to De-
troit organizations to participate
Group chairmen are: Club 1,
S. Sislin; Club 2, R. Levine and
S. Sheraga; Drora-Kadimah, J.
Malamud; Brandeis, E. Gersuk
and M. Raimi; Massada, M.
Wise; Hanita, E. Drachler and I.
Sititsky; Goldie - Myerson, R.
Edelman.
Further information can be ob-
tained by calling the Pioneer
FLORA FREIMAN
Women's Council office, TY.
"Who Is Guilty," the outstand-
7-2880.
The local organization has ing Yiddish stage hit of the cur-
transmitted $15,000 towards this rent season in New York, will
year's child rescue fund quota. be presented at the Scottish Rite
Auditorium of the Masonic
Temple, for one performance
Merlo, Zerbo Winners in
only, this Sunday evening, at
Handball Tournament
8:30 o'clock.
The play, in two acts and ten
After taking the first game scenes, will be staged by the
and apparel-it-Ty Oh their way original New York cast with
toward their third major upset Paul Burstein in the stellar role,
in the State A. A. U. Handball supported by Lillian Lux, Anna
Doubles Championship, Lou Tabak, Flora Freiman, Sally
Schwartz and Max • Thomas, Schorr, Janet Paskiewitch, Max
representing the Jewish Center, Rosenblatt, Julius Adler, Eli
found difficulty in continuing the Mintz, Feivish Finkel, - Isaac
fast pace and lost to Paul Merlo Arco, Simon Wolf and Henrietta
and Lou Zerbo of the Downtown Jacobson.
Y.M.C.A., in the finals, at the
The play, written by Louis
Center. The scores were, 15-21, Freiman, with a musical score of
21-5, 21-12.
tuneful folk songs composed by
Schwartz and Thomas left to Ilya Trilling and Louis Marko-
represent the Center in the Na- witz, is staged and produced by
tional Tournament in Chicago.
Paul Burstein.
League for Labor Palestine
Supports Histadrut Program
The League for Labor Pales- human material for the neces-
tine is an organization of Amer- sary productive task in agricul-
ican Jews banded together for ture, industry and commerce.
the understanding and the pro-
Most of the immigrants come to
motion of the program of the Palestine with little or no skill
Histadrut—the General Federa- and are there, through the Hista-
tion of Jewish Labor in Palestine. drut, transformed into farmers,
The League believes that the construction workers, fishermen,
Histadrut is the most significant factory workers. This the Hista-
and the most hopeful recon- drut does partly through its in-
structive force not alone in Zion- sistence on the employment of
ism but in Jewish life as a whole. Jewish labor in private industry,
What the Jews have achieved in and partly through the develop-
Palestine—economically, socially, ment of its own system of co-
culturally—are in the greatest operatives.
The co-operative institutions of
measure achievements of the
the Histadrut, united under the
Histadrut.
An understanding and an ap- Hevrat Ovdim (Co-operative As-
preciation of these accomplish- sociation of Jewish Labor) cover
ments are important for every all branches of • economic life:
Jew and essential for every agriculture, road, factory and
Zionist. • h o u s e building, shipbuilding,
marketing, banking, selling and
Workers of ZiOn
consumption. Well over a third
The Histadrut was organized of the Histadrut membership are
in December 1920 with 4,433 working in co-operative estab-
members. At present it has 145,- lishments. T h e co-operatives
000 members. It includes over along with the social welfare
75% of all Jewish labor, and 85% agencies of the Histadrut (health,
of all organized Jewish labor in unemployment, securing, inval-
Palestine—a higher proportion idty insurance, housing, etc.)
than in any other country in the represent a capital investment of
world except the U.S.S.R.
$65,000,000.
With their families members
Social Implication
of the Histadrut compose 40%
The social implications of
of the Jewish population of Pal- Histadrut co-operative way of
estine.
life cannot be measured in terms
The Histadrut is, of course, a of money invested or numbers
federation of trade unions like employed. In these days when
the C.I.O. or the A.F.L. In 1943 economic systems , are being
it conducted 134 strikes for bet- radically changed and social
ter wages, bargaining rights, values transformed by violence
fairness in allocation of jobs. and revolution, the peaceful,
Half of the strikes resulted in full voluntary methods of the Hista-
success for the workers' demands, drut point the way of salvation
and 37% - in partial success.
to an economically sick world.
More Than a Union
The League for Labor Pales-
The Histadrut, however, is tine believes that the Histadrut
much more than a trade union. program and activities are the
Its chief significance for Zionism cornerstone of the N a t i o n a 1
is the fact that it is a first class Homeland, and should receive
colonizing agency. Not in the wholehearted support of Amer-
matter of supplying the land or ican liberals—Jews and non-
the capital, but in training the Jews alike.
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2163 Penobscot Bldg.
Detroit 26, Mich.
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Lithuanian Jewish
Banquet on May 20
Dr. Leo Shapiro of New York
To Address Local Event
At the Bnai David
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UHS Auxiliary
Fashion Show
On Wednesday
Cott, Louis Tobin, Burton M.
Seidon, Florence Rossman, Moe
S. Dann, Theodore Isaacs, Wil-
liam Mondel, Julius Berman,
Max Saidman and Sol Yolles.
Mrs. Walter Farber is director.
Mrs. Bert Smokier is chairman
of the program. Mrs. R. B. New-
man is social chairman.
The "Fashion Show" sponsor-
The annual election of the
ed by the Woman's Auxiliary of auxiliary will be held preceding
the United Hebrew Schools will "Fashion Show". A desert lunch-
eon will be served.
be held Wednesday, April 25, at
Dr. Leo Shapiro, son of the 1:30 p. m. in the auditorium of
Present officers are mesdames:
rabbi of Kovno and one of the
president, Jack Tobin; vice-
The Federation of Lithuanian
Jews of Detroit will sponsor a
banquet on- May 20 at the Bnai
David Hall.
leaders of the Lithuanian Fed-
eration in New York, will be the
guest speaker.
Dr. Shapiro, who came to this
country before the war, is now
in mourning over his father,
mother and brothers, who were
murdered by the Nazis.
In his Detroit address, he will
bring important reports regard-
ing relatives and friends of Jews
in Lithuania.
The relief banquet will also
be featured by a musical pro-
gram.
All who desire Information re-
garding relatives in Lithuania
are invited to make reservations
for the banquet by ca - ling the
pr ,silent of the Letroit Lithuan-
ian Federation, S. Jacobson, TO.
7-6105, or the s -cretary, Mrs. D.
Metz, UN. 1-6233
Program of Action
For Zionism Given.
At Hackissah Parley
Addressing a capacity audience
at the Shaarey Zedek Sunday
evening, on the occasion of the
public meeting of the annual
conference of the Central States
Region of Hadassah, Herman
Weisman of New York declared
that the program of the Jewish
people today is to demand im-
mediate transplanting of large
numbers of Jews into Palestine
and assurance of the early es-
tablishment of the Jewish Com-
monwealth.
Mrs. Arthur Edelstein of Tol-
edo ,was elected president; Mrs.
Morris Adler of Detroit, Mrs.
Ezra Shapiro of Cleveland and
Mrs. Louis W. Cohen of Charles-
ton, W. Va., vice-presidents;
Mrs. Hugo Bloomfield, Lexing-
ton, Ky.. Mrs. Louis Wasserstrom
of Toledo, secretaries; Mrs. Jacob
Levy of Youngstown, treasurer.
presidents, Charles Robinson,
John Horwitz and Philip Gilbert;
financial secretary, Joseph Dorf-
man; recording secretary, M. S.
Dann; corresponding secretary's,
Julius Berman, M. R. Katz; trea-
surer, Rudolph Zuieback; audi-
tor, Richard A. Cott; parlimen-
tarian; A. B. Stralser.
The nominating committee:
Mesdames Samuel Singer, chair-
man; Louis J. Tobin, Charles A,
Smith, Louis S-eitori, Moe S.
Dann; corresponding secretaries,
dore Isaacs and A. B. Stralser.
On Monday, April 9, a commit-
tee representing the auxiliary
was in charge of the USO food
service. The committee consist-
ed of Mesdames Morris Fishman,
chairman; Sam Gendel, Joe
Model, Abe Koffman, Harry Ber-
lin, Ethel Fishman, Joe Orley,
Rudolph Zuieback, Louis Seidon,
MRS. WALTER FARBER
Charles Robinson, Meyer Beck-
the Jewish Center. This is the man, S. Zeldes, and H. L. Perlis.
fourth and final program of the
cultural series arranged and
sponsored by the auxiliary.
Buy War Bonds!
Through this "Fashion Show",
at which there will be a display
of costumes worn by Jewish
women throughout the ages, an
attempt will be made to study
the various historic periods of
Jewish History. Participants in
the custome display are mes-
dames Morris Jacobs, Albert
Carnick, Herbert Moss, Richard
The Management
and Children of
Camp Mehia
Express Their
Sympathy
The Officers
and M embers
of the
Lubliner
Aid Society
Express Their Sorrow
on the death of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
To Mrs. Jos. Leshman
and her 2 sons
3291 Burlingame
on the Death of
Jos. Leshman
Husband and Father
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