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Drive Given Enthusiastic
Support at Many Rallies
Pre-Campaign Meetings of Trade and Professional Groups
Hear Evaluations of Campaign Objectives; Volun-
teers Urgently Needed by Divisions
Pre campaign trade solicitation meetings continued to
-
attract enthusiastic support for the Allied Jewish Campaign
as the various divisions called together member groups.
Food Division
A special meeting in behalf of
the Allied Jewish Campaign was Pioneer Women's Saturday
held by the Detroit Fruit Ven- Dance Will Benefit Home
dors Protective Association at For Children in Palestine
the Workmen's Circle Center on
Sunday. Ira Sonnenblich of the
Pioneer Women's Organization
Joint Distribution Committee de- will sponsor a dance in the ball-
livered an inspiring talk on the room of Fort Wayne hotel; Cass
work of the JDC, United Pales- and Temple, Saturday evening,
tine Appeal and National Refugee
Service'. Morris Goldberg, head
of the association, presided and
Called for pledges.
Building Trades
The electricians section held a
pledging meeting at the Belcrest
Thursday night. Under the chair-
manship of Milton Doner, the
group pledged generous support
to the campaign.
Volunteers are urgently needed
in Division D to accept approxi-
mately 200 unassigned slips, ac-
cording to Barney Smith, chair-
man of the division. The slips
are grouped by neighborhoods
and can be obtained from Henry
Feinberg, executive secretary of
the Division, at campaign head-
quarters, Bagley Room, Hotel
ZELDA MILLER
Tuller, RA 9887.
Mechanical Trades
Mickey Woolf's Orch-
- The scrap iron section held its May 18.
pledging meeting at the Statler estra will provide the music.
used •for the
Hotel on Monday evening under Proceeds will be .
children's
home
in
Palestine.
For
the chairmanship of Samuel J. tickets call the following co-
Rands.
chairmen: Zelda Miller, TY.
Rabbi Elieier Levi of Congrega-
7-7470; Goldie Wasserman, UN.
tion Bnai Moshe was guest speak-
3-8737; Florence Primack, DA.
er at the meeting of the waste
8978; Gussie Green, TO. 5-3608;.
materials section Wednesday
Ruth Katz, TO. 8-8361.
evening at Jericho Temple. Ben-
jamin Laikin and Al Krass served
VHS Auxiliary- Plans
as co-chairmen of this group.
Prospects were assigned and Final Cultural Affair
pledges taken at -the meeting of
the auto sales section Thursday And Elections May 22
night, at Hotel Tuller. Henry
Newman and Bernard J. Teal
The next program of the Wo-
are leading the Allied Jewish man's Auxiliary of the United
Campaign drive in this trade.
Hebrew Schools, to which hus-
Alex Taub, former chief bands will be invited, will be
engineer of the Foreign Economic held Wednesday evening, May
Administration, will be guest 22, at the Jewish Center.
This final meeting of cultural
speaker at a meeting of the Jew-
ish engineers of Detroit, at 8 events also will be the annual
p.m. Tuesday, in the Third Floor election meeting.
Feature of the gathering will
Chapel of Temple Beth El. Mr.
Taub's topic will be "Economic be a -festival of folk dances and
Development of Europe Does Not music, to be presented through
Need Germany." The meeting was a wedding in costume.
Miss Julia Sanford, folk 4N -ice
called by Robert Janeway and
instructor at Wayne University,
Jack Lawson, co-chairmen.
is instructing the womea in the
Professional Division
The chiropodists section met Jewish folk dances. Participants
at Campaign Headquarters, in are: Mrs. Sol A. Dann, Mrs.
Hotel Tuller, Wednesday evening, JoS•eph Jackier, Miss Phyllis Is-
to discuss support of the drive. aacs, Miss Miriam Gold, Miss
The meeting was under the chair- Drora Selesny, Mrs. Berkowitz,
manship of Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs. Mrs. Herbert Moss, Mrs. Holtz-
With Bob Hall, the "Will man, Mrs. Abe Katzman and Mrs.
Rogers of Rhyme," as guest, the Charles Moss. The Wayne Uni-
accountants held a meeting in versity•Folk Dancing Group will
the Standard Club of the Book assist. Mrs. Rubin Young is the
Cadillac Hotel, under the chair- accompanist.
Mrs. Florence Rossman is* chair-
manship• of Arthur S. Purday.
man of the program, assisted by
Mercantile Division
A joint meeting of the printers' Mrs. Dann. Mrs. A. L. Carnick
Is president of the auxiliary.
and publishers' and the advertis-
ing sections heard Philip Adler,
foreign correspondent for the Aluma Holds Outing
Detroit News, speak at their This Friday Evening
dinner meeting Monday evening
in the Normandie Room of the ALUMA members and friends
Book Cadillac. The committee in will meet this Friday evening, at
charge of arranging the dinner the Mam, 11639 Linwood, for an
included Wilfred Doner, Leon S. outdoor activity, destination to be
Wayburn, Herman L. Lewis Jr.. disclosed at that time. Informal
Hyman Safran and Raymond outdoor dress will be in order.
Moers. The next meeting of Aluma will
The linen supply section, under take place May 17, 8:15 p. m. A
the chairmanship of Dave Rosen, labor Zionist will be the speak-
Joseph P. Sandler and Joseph er.
Greenbaum, heard Ira Sonnen. Aluma members are cooperat-
blick speak in behalf of the ing in the Shekel campaign and
campaign at their meeting in Par- JNF box clearance.
ler F of Hotel Statler.
During last week's inter-racial
The office supplies and paper activity, Aluma met Canada Lee,
products section will hold a din- Negro star of "On Whitman
ner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednes- Avenue."
clay in Parlor F of the Hotel
For information concerning
Statler. Invitations have been Aluma, -call Joseph Leep, . chair-
sent out by Nathan Balaban, man, DA. 5084.
chairman.
-JWB ministers to the religious
The Committee on Army and and welfare needs of Jewish pat-
Navy Religious Activities (CAN ients at 87 veterans hospitals
RA) of JWB recruited, certified through its own staff of trained
and serviced- 311 Jewish chap- field workers, USO-JWB workers,
, Iains in the Army, Navy and chaplains, visiting rabbis and hos-
• MarineCorps.
pital visiting committees.
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Our Letter Box
Hay den, Barnes Criticized;
Kelsey and Adler Praised
Editor, The Jewish News:
The Detroit News has two
writers whose frequent com-
ments on Palestine in4icate that
it would not hurt if they were
compelled to read some literature
on the subject of Jewish rights in
Palestine before writing their ar-
ticles. They are Jay G. Hayden
and Russell Barnes.
Mr. Hayden seems to have be-
come obsessed with the fear that
American troops will have to
fight on Palestine soil to protect
the Jewish position. His last ar-
ticle, in which he dragged in the
18-cent-an-hour issue as a com-
parison with President Truman's
attitude on Palestine sounded en-
tirely too ludicrious to justify a
man's right to discuss a human
issue.
Mr. Barnes has stated that
the Jews are in open revolt
against the British administra-
tion in Palestine. Where did he
ever gather that? Is it possible
that he does not know the dif-
ference between the total co-
operation, within the scope of
the Mandate and the Balfour
'Declaration, offered by the Jew-
ish Agency, and the . works of a
handful of discredited young
Jews who do not represent Jew-
ish public opinion?
But the Detroit News has two
excellent writers whose sympa-
thetic attitudes atone for the Hay-
den-Barnes blunders. They are:
Columnist W. K. „Kelsey and
Philip Adler. The articles on the
Palestine situation by the latter
two indicate a deep knowledge of
the situation and a sincere desire
to be humane about it.
BERTRAM UNGLEID
Lehman Urges Support of
ORT $4,000,000 Fund Drive
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The dis-
placed and refugee Jews of
Europe "can be transformed
from helpless wanderers to self-
reliant citizens," former Govern-
or Herbert H. Lehman said in a
message urging support of the
ORT 1946 fund drive for $4,000,-
000. The message was read to
the annual meeting of the ORT
Council of Organizations.
6riday, May 10, t946
Widespread Job ins Reported;
Least Discrimination Seen in N. Y.
Detroit One of Cities Included in Survey Conducted by
National Community Relations Advisory Council;
Community Council Is the Local Agency
A sharp rise in discrimination
against Jews, including Jewish
veterans of World War II, was
revealed in a report issued by
the National Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council. The re-
port is contained in the April
Bulletin of the Council's Com-
mittee on Employment Discrim-
ination and is based upon a sur-
vey conducted in 15 major in-
dustrial centers at the request
of the President's Committee on
Fair Employment Practice.
Agencies contributing data for
the survey were the American
Jewish Congress, the Jewish War
Veterans of the U. S. and local
Jewish community relations coun-
cils and,. vocational services.
Discrimination was shown to
be widespread in all the cities
surveyed. The lowest incidence
of discriminatory practices was
found in New York where a
state law prohibiting discrimina-
tion has been in operation. Apart
from any consideration of ad-
ministration therefore, it seems
clear that the very existence of
an FEPC statute hays served as
an effective deterrent to overt
discrimination.
Major Findings
Major findings for the country
as a whole contrasted with d_ata
from New York follow:
1. A comparison of discriminatory
religious specifications in newspaper
help-wanted ads showed an increase
of 195% in 1946 over 1945—despite a
decline in the total volume of adver-
tising.
2. 93% more complaints of employ-
ment discrimination were filed with
Jewish agencies in the six months
following
Day than in the corres-
ponding period a year ago.
3. Of 241 private employment agen-
cies, 89% required applicants to state
their religion and lineage. The cor-
responding figure in New York was
2%.
4. Of 1251 Jewish job seekers, 60%
were asked their religion in _inter-
views with one or more firms. The
corresponding figure in New York
was 15%.
5. Of 651 . veterans applying for jobs,
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47% were asked their religion. The
corresponding figure in New York
was 19%.
6. 34% of all business firms ap-
proached requested information about
applicants' religion. The correspond-
ing figure In New York was 8%.
7. 15% of the applicants indicated
they were refused jobs solely because
of their religion. The corresponding
figure in New York was 7%.
Detroit was one of the cities
included in this survey. The
study of newspaper want ads and
of private employment agency
practices was made by the Jew-
ish Community Council. Addi-
tional information reported on by
the survey was obtained locally
through the Jewish Vocational
Service.
Intensify Its Work
The office of the Detroit Jew-
ish Community Council stated
that the overall findings corres-
pond with the situation in De-
troit as brought out by the local
study,
Based on the information un-
covered by the survey, the Jew-
ish Community Council plans to
intensify its work in dealing with
individual cases of discrimination,
the number of which has shown
an increase; in conferring with
officials in occupations known to
have a pattern of discrimination,
and .attempting to open up these
occupations to qualified Jewish
employes; in cooperating with
governmental . and other com-
munity bodies engaged in com-
batting discrimination in employ-
nient; and in renewing the -ef-
forts to- have State Fair Employ
ment legislation -passed by Mich-
igan's Legislature at its next ses=
sion.
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