30th nniversary of flis adrut Celebration

300,000 Israel Labor
Drive 0 ens Tonight

A Tribute to Histadrut

By HON. ALBEN W. BARKLEY

Vice-President of the United States

The 30th anniversary of His-
tadrut in Israel will be cele-
brated tonight, Thursday, Nov.
30, at, a city-wide mass rally and
conference in the Northwest He-
brew Congregation. It will mark
the formal launching of the 1951
Detroit Israel Histadrut Oath-
paign for :300,000. This sum will
represent Detroit's share of the
$10,000,000 national Histadrut
Campaign quota to help the Is-

Health Ministry, will bring a
message direct from Israel and
the Histadrut to hundreds of
workers, contributors and
friends of Histadrut.
Sharing the program will be
Dr. Joachim Prinz, Rabbi of
Temple Bnai Abraham, Newark,
and Vice-President of World
Jewish Congress. Cantor Ben-
jamin Siegel, acclaimed by thou-
sands for his moving interpre-
tation of Jewish traditional mel-
odies and Hebrew songs, will
present a program of Yiddish,
chassidic and Israeli songs.
Morris Lieberman, u n d e - r
whose chairmanship and inspir-
ing leadership the Histadrut
Campaign has grown and made
Detroit the top city in the coun-
try, will be; chairman for the
evening.
For the hundreds of Jews
from -all walks of life who will
be there—General Zionists, Miz-
rachi and Labor Zionists, repre-

DR. ZALMAN GRINBERG

rael Histadrut in its historic task
of productivizing newcomers en-
tering Israel and furthering the
building of the State of Israel
on the foundations of democracy
and social justice.
An impressive program has
been arranged for the celebra-
tion, which will inspire the Jew-
ish community of Detroit to re-
newed solidarity with the pion-
eers of Israel.
Dr. Zalman Grinberg, di-
rector of Histadrut's Beilinson.
,,,. Hospital and adviser to Israel

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CANTOR BENJAMIN SIEGEL

by

DR. JOACHIM PRINZ

sentatives of synagogues, organ-
izations, fraternal orders, wo-
men's organizations and family
clubs—the celebration will also
be a demonstration of Detroit
Jewry spiritual identification
with the Halutzim of Israel, the
3310,000 men and women of His-
tadrut who are building the
Jewish State as a beacon of light
and hope for the Jewish people
and for all nations of the earth.
The voice of Detroit Jewry
will, on this happy occasion,
lend encouragement to the pion-
eers of Histadrut, the vanguard
of Israel, in their enormous tasks
which will safeguard the secur-
ity and welfare of the Jewish
people for generations to come.

.

WASHINGTON, D. C. — The tion, worked in Israel to re-
accomplishments of the Hista- forest that country, to build
drut, Israel's labor federation, it up industrially and agricul-
must be - a source of pride - to all turally. I dare say that while
who are concerned with main- the first hope and desire in
taining human freedom and in- recent , years was to recreate
itiative in the Jewish State. To- Palestine as a Jewish Home-
day, when our fellow-Americans
are fighting for the , preserva-
tion of liberty and democracy in
Korea, this way of life takes on
added significance. For we have
become aware of the fact that
ours is a battle for the dignity
of the individual, for progress
and against the totalitarian de-
signs of certain governments
that would enslave us.
In the tiny State of Israel,
hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple from every walk of life and
from every corner of the world
are seeking to cling to the very
philosophy we are defending
with our blood today. The His-
tadrut is a champion of this
way of life. By its consistent la-
bors, the Histadrut is transform-
ing the homeless, haunted ref-
ugees of -the past, into creative,
productive citizens of the pres-
ALBEN W. BARKLEY
ent and future. Recent inter-
national happenings have shown land, I dare say that not all of
how imporIant it is for us to those who began the work of
assist such vital work. By - sup- this. organization thirty years
porting the Histadrut, Ameri- ago, really could have dreamed
cans are strengthening democ- that all this would happen in
racy, in the Middle East, and less than one generation.
this is a vital factor in our
When I was again 'in Israel
struggle against totalitarian ag-
three years ago, I saw some of
gression.
We have seen before our these hillsides' had been refor-
very eyes in the last three ested, some of the swamps had
years, not on the screen in a been drained, ; some of the arid
moving picture theatre, but in land had been watered and that
the grand scheme of human a great city had been built up
development and human des- on the very sands of the sea-
tiny, we have seen of our shore.
blood and sacrifice and tor-
It rests upon the conscience
ment and untild hardship, the of mankind to raise the stand-
birth of a new nation on the ards of life and to rehabilitate
soil of the oldest nation in the a. country and a people, a people
world—Israel.
who for the most part have
I am proud that the United been compelled to flee from all
States was the first to recognize parts of the world, men, women
that new nation. And we are and children who have come
among the first to recognize now from 60 nations, to' avoid bigo-
the need of that new nation for try and intolerance and, it is fair
moral, economic, political, intel- to say, to avoid death and de-
lectual and financial support struction. and inhumanitY in
and aid in order that the flame this modern day of' what we
of liberty that has been kindled call civilization.
in the Middle East shall not die.
So, I congratulate this Feder-
I know, I have been in Pales- ation of workers for two of three
tine, as it was called, and still reasons: One, because it • is a
is referred to and aways will be Federation of workers, because
—Israel and Palestine are more it is a recognition of • the fact
or less identical.-
that these men and women in
But there were forces work- Israel who work with their
ing even then in Israel, fol- hands and their minds, who do
lowing the ( Balfour Declara- not occupy the front pages of
tion. This organization—Hist- newspapers, who hold no public
adrut — is an organization of office, who are not engaged in
labor in Israel that has for politics, but who in the quiet .
thirty years, nearly a genera- hours and the quiet places, be-

tween the peaks of high human
achievements, down in the
shadows of the vales, work for
thpir fellow-men in order that
they may encourage the crea-
tion of a nation, not merely as a
political entity among the great
nations of the world, but in,order
that they might recreate the
spirit of man. With the encour-
agement that goes with the
combined and cooperative efforts
on the part of the organizations
such as the Histadrut and oth-
ers, they try to stabilize life in
the new nation of Israel.

They need all the help that
can be given them. They need
schools, they need hospitals,
they need factories, they need

highways, they need doctors,
they need farms. And they are
engaged in. a gigantic enter-
prise. Out of the ruins of two
thousand years they created
an oasis in the Middle East,
and it is an oasis because
through having created the
new republic of Israel, the
State of Israel, those who live
there and who try to work ottt
its problems, believe in the

same kind of democracy, the
same kind of liberties, the
same sort of dignity for man
as' we believe in in the United
States of America.
The peace of the world may-

depend upon what happens in
the Middle East. It may depend
on this oasis of peace and de-
mocracy—Israel—made out of
struggling men and women who
have fled persecution and who
enjoy the same kind of democ-
racy which we enjoy:, Freedom
of worship, freedom of speech,
freedom of the press and free-
dom of assembly. And I am. sure
that in our hearts two more
freedoms have been added —
freedom from fear and freedom
from want.
Whatever the cost, whatever
the secrifice, it will be worth it.
You will learn progressively as
the years go by, it is more bless-
ed to give than to receive. Your
reward will be to see , in a few
years the fruits of 'this great
human movement to fortify, to
stabilize human lives, liuman
institutions, democracy, to bUild
up a great bulwark of peace and
happiness. Our hearts will beat
more rapidly and our bosoms
will swell more ,generously be-
cause of What we have done and
what we are doing.

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, December 1, 1950-

The Glorious Pioneering

Movement in Israel

1920: 4,400 members

1950: 330,000 members

Institutions and Enterprises:

•

KUPAT HOLIM — medical care for 600,000
Israelis; SHIKUN—housing for workers and immi-
grants; MERKAZ COOPERATZIA—producers and
service cooperatives; MERKAZ HAKLAI—agricul-
tural development center; SOLEL BONEH — con-
tracting society; TNUVA — a-gricUltural marketing
society; HAMASHBIR—cooperative wholesale soci-
ety; MEKOROT — water and irrigation company;
AVIRONaviation company; NACHSHONmari,
time and fishing company; OHEL—theatre; DAVAR
— Hebrew press; HAF'OEL— sports association;
AIVIAL=vocational schools; 300 KIBBUTZIM and.
MOSHAVIM—agricultural settlements with 100,000
populatiom

