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Dear Friends:
The great tasks facing our brothers and sisters in Israel make it im-
perative that we, the friends of Histadrut, respond wholeheartedly to the
needs of the hour. Our measure of loyalty and devotion to the builders and
defenders of Israel will be demonstrated at the National Roll Call Con-
ference this Sunday afternoon at Hotel Astor, New York City.
In this critical year, 1953, Histadrut must integrate thousands of
newcomers in Israel; it must expand its medical facilities, vocational train-
ing centers, housing projects and provide jobs to mostly unskilled new
immigrants.
We appeal to you to see to it that your worthy organization make a
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substantial contribution from its treasury and your campaign workers ob-
tain additional personal pledges from your membership so that the maximum amount can
be presented at the local Roll Call this Sunday afternoon at the Labor Zionist Institute.
Please act immediately to assure the attainment of our goal of $100,000 which
Detroit has pledged to wire to the National Roll Call conference in New York the same
afternoon. It will be a source of material and moral encouragement to our heroic
pioneers in Israel.
MORRIS LTEBERMAN
Chairman, Detroit Israel Histadrut Campaign

An Award to Histadrut

By WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS

Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

—I feel that I should give The
Histadrut an award—an award
for political inventivenesS; or-
iginality, courage, and the great
pioneer work that it has done
in Israel, and for the great in-
spiration it has been to other
groups in other lands.

JUSTICE DOUGLAS

/, think that the work of His-
tadrut that I have seen and
read about in Israel is some of
the most challenging anywhere
in the world. Someone asked me
what part of it interested me
the most and I thought of the
rest camps and factories where
labor and capital are partners.
One thing that impressed me
more than anything else was the
great work in. the reclamation
of the Negev—making a garden
out of the desert one of the
most stirring things that I have
seen anywhere in the world.
The Histadrut is a symbol of
something much more impor-
tant than the program that Is-
rael has immediately at hand.
We in this country, we of the
West, have gone very far in our
invention of machines and the
good material things of life—
from bathtubs to television and
airplanes. But our political in-
ventiveness has not kept up
with that other kind of inven-
tiveness for which we are so
vain; and as a result of the
lack of our political inventive-
ness there is much of the world
that is getting away from the
sphere of civilization that we
represent and moving closer
and closer to the orbit of the
deadly orthodoxy of the com-
munist regime.
I have traveled much in the
last four years and have seen
most of the great countries that
run between the Mediterranean
and the Pacific. I have seen the

horrible Indian labor lines and
the rubber plantations of Ma-
laya. I have seen the dock work-
ers, textile workers and coal
miners in China, whose annual
wages were much less than the
per share dividends received by
the owners—miserable pittances.
Those are the things that are
important in the political think-
ing of America as we look to the
world to understand their prob-
lems; because it is the voice of
these people that is ultimately
going to determine the direction
in which Asia is going to go.
They are the people with the
same kind of ambitions, the
same kind of hopes, the same
kind of heartaches as those of
us here. They are the human
beings. They have children.
They have medical problems.
They have the same hopes for
their boys and girls as we have
for our children. And they are
living under very miserable con-
ditions. It is their voice that we
must come to listen to and get
to know. And there is one thing
I am sure of, and that is that
we cannot get to know them by
listening to the voices of the
British. And we cannot get to
know them by listening to the
voices of the French. We must
listen to those people themselves,

through their own organizations
and somehow or other we must
help them adopt techniques that
Histadrut has developed to help
themselves, so that they may
become enlightened, mature cit-
izens of their own countries.
To them, to their organiza-
tions (and there are some be-
ginnings of organizations in the
labor fields of Asia) , organiza-
tions like the Histadrut can
make a tremendous contribu-
tion—not in terms of money, not
in terms of material things, but
in terms of sympathy, in terms
of ideas. When all the atomic
bombs have been dropped and
the earth has been seared, life
will still go on. And it will be
the ideas of charity, of human-
ity, of fraternity, and mutual
help that will ultimately govern
and control. • Those are the
ideas that the Histadrut has
developed in Israel and those
are the ideas that, through or-
ganizations like this, can help
the rubber workers in Malaya to
help themselves and help the tin
worker in Indo-China to help
himself—as we can help all the
workers across the nations help
themselves. It is the same kind
of renaissance in Asia that will
remake the humanity of the
world at large.

MORR IS L IEBERMAN, CHAIRMAN. MORRIS SCHAVER HONORARY CHA IR MAN,

H SCHUMER. CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE AND STAFF:

ISRAEL HISTADRUT CAMPAIGN 13722 L INWOOD AVE DET=4

RECE IVED ALARMING REPORT FROM HISTADRUT RE ISRAEL UNEMPLOYMENT
SITUATION-, NUMBER JOBLESS NINETEEN THOUSAND MOSTLY UNSKILLED

NEW I MMIGRANTS1 HISTADRUT DECIDED MOBILIZE ALL RESOURCES

CREATE NEW EMPLOYMENT TRANSFER TO AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENTS

AND INCREASE VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM, ALL HISTADRUT

MEMBERS PLEDGED DAYS WAGES EACH MONTH* OUR CA MPA IGN MUST

MAKE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT HELP COMBAT UNEMPLOYMENT AND MEET

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES CREATED BY PRESENT SITUATION, URGENTLY
REQUEST YOU TO MOBILIZE MAXIMUM CASH AND FORWARD SAME TO

NATIONAL ROLLCALL CONFERENCE FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH AS YOUR

SHARE. IN THIS EIERGE NCY:e. HISTADRUT APPEALS FOR YOUR

IMMEDIATE ACTION=

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Plans for the rapid comple-
tion of the Eliezer Kaplan Me-
morial Hospital at Rehovot
were submitted to the National
Committee for Labor Israel,
which has undertaken to raise
$3,000,000 for the project, by Dr.
Shlomo Sukiennik, director-de-
signee of the institution, at a
special meeting of the Board of
Directors at Histadrut House.
Dr. Sukiennik, an eminent en-
docrinologist who studied in
Switzerland and headed the
Central Consulting Clinic of
Kupat Holim in Tel Aviv, is in
this country studying latest de-
velopments in internal medicine.
He told the Board • that the
Kaplan Hospital will answer a
critical need for medical facili-
ties for the 100,000 people al-
ready residing in the southern
half of Israel, and the quarter
million population expected to
rise there during the coming
decade. At present only two
small hospitals attempt to cater
to the widely-scattered com-
munities of the Negev..
The Kaplan Hospital, honor-
ing the late Deputy Prime Min-
ister of Israel, will be built on
the pavilion system instead of

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having; one massive structure, as
the latter would take much•
longer to construct. There will
be 300 beds in the eleven wards
that will be housed in six pa-
vilions. The hospital will con-
tain an out-patient department,
a nurses' school and blood bank
as well as sections for pediatrics,
obstetrids, women's ailments,
surgery, internal medicine and
orthopedics. The staff of more
than one hundred doctors and
200 nurses will be provided with
housing in a special residential.
quarter on the grounds.
Dr. Sukiennik pointed out that
Israel suffers from a severe
shortage of hospital facilities.
Whereas the world standard in
civilized countries is five beds
per thousand population, Israel
affords only 2.5 beds per thou-
sand. Kupat Holim, due to the
phenomenal growth of its mem-
bership during the past four
years when hundreds of thou-
sands of new immigrants joined,
is below even the low Israeli
standard, with only one bed per
thousand. The Kaplan Hospital,
together with additions to Beil-
inson and other institutions,
will partially remedy this situ-
ation.
The Farband Labor Zionist
Order, the Furniture Industry
Committee of New York and
Chicago, Landsmanschaften So-
cieties in Philadelphia and To-
ronto have made specific com-
mitments toward this hospital.
The Detroit Histadrut Cam-
paign is sponsoring the surgical
pavilion of the Kaplan hospital,
fully equipped with operating
tables, oxygen tents and the
most modern equipment. The
greater part of its 1953 quota of
$300,000 will go towards the fi-
nancing of the Detroit pavilion.

Honor Roll of
1953 Campaign

Campaign workers who ob- •
tamed 10 or more pledges and •
are entitled to "Free Trip to
Israel" Draw to take place at
the end of the campaign.

Leaders of the 1953 Detroit Histadrut Campaign, shown above, include: FRONT ROW:
A. Mondry, P. Zeltzer, E. Krueger, IL Gonty, A. Weintraub, IL Wiener, H. Grossman.
2nd ROW: H. Erlichman, W. Gayman, J. Zemmol, H. Schumer, M. Lieberman, M.
Schaver, N. Rose, P. Goldstein. 3rd ROW: M. Schumukler, Dr. W. Klien, S. Dronzek,
J. Brody, S. Kane, B. Lindeman, D. Sisslin, J. Malamud, S. Schultz, H. Hearshen. 4th
ROW: A. Ferman, M. Goldaftas, M. Abrahams, M. Chasnick, W. Selman, M. Kopnick,
A. Wienerman.

Aaron Berg
Maurice Baker
Israel Burnstein
Isadore Cohen
Leo J. Cohen
Norman Cottler
S. Dronzek
William Gayman
S. J. Greenberg
M. Hayet
Mrs. D. Jaffe
Mark Kaminski
Samuel Kane
Harry T. Laker
Louis Levine

Morris Levine
Morris Lieberman
Jack Malamud
Adele Mondry
Larry Nichamin
Morris Ostrow
Nathan Rose
Morris Scheyer
Max Schmukler
Morritz Schubiner
Harry Schumer
Nathan Shecter
Philip Shkolnick
Charles Solovich
Earl Weingarden

THE JEWISH NEWS-5

Friday, February 13, 1953

FRIENDS OF HISTADRUT ARE INVITED TO THE
DETROIT RALLY ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL ROLL-CALL CONFERENCE

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th

2 P.M.

AT LABOR ZIONIST INSTITUTE, 13722 LINWOOD

Guest Speaker — MOSHE BAR-AM — Secretary-General, Jerusalem Labor Council
Musical Program --- HABONIM CHOIR in Selected Israeli Numbers

BRING THE MONEY' TO THE RALLY
COVER YOUR OUTSTANDING PLEDGE CARDS
WE MUST WIRE $100,000 TO NEW YORK IMMEDIATELY