)Morris Spitzer, Back from Israel,
Reports Histadrut's Progress

Dr. Goldmann Lists
Four Major Demands
Made in Austrian Talks

in building Kupat Holim (the
medical arm) , in serving as a
union and in being the govern-
ment's leading political com-
ponent—the Mapai Party.
He told a fascinated audience
how Jews from all lands were
being integrated into the life
and ways of the Jewish state.
"There are 16,000 Arabs in
Histadrut," Bar d a c k e said,
"which is more than any Arab
state has in any of their meager
unions."

The Arabs are now being
sent arms by the U.S. Govern-
ment, Bardacke said. They are
being sent because Secretary
(of State, John Foster Dulles)
Dulles believes they will com-
b a t Communism. But, he
added, the arms will first be
used by powerful, feudal Arab
leaders to suppress their own
people and secondly to fight
Israel.

MORRIS SPITZER (left) pre-
sents a Hebrew Bible, with Eng-
lish translation, to WALTER
REUTHER, president of the CIO.
The gift was sent to Reuther by
the ilaifa Labor Council in rec-
ognition of his personal efforts
He concluded with an appeal
in behalf of labor.
to union leaders present to con-
* * *

Morris Spitzer returned tri-
umphant from his trip abroad
when a turnout of over 200
members and friends of the
Amalgamated Clothing Worker's
of America assembled at a din-
ner at the Leland Hotel to hear
his report on trade unionism in
Great Britain, France and Is-
rael.
The dinner, given by Spitzer's
union, the Detroit Joint Board
of ACWA, and by the Michigan
Joint Board, managed by David
Chaney, was attended by a host
of labor leaders, led by Walter
P. Reuther, president of the
Congress of Industrial Organ-
izations (CIO), Sender Ginis,
vice-president of the national
ACWA, and Gregory Bardacke,
national director of the Trade
Union Division of Histadrut.
Spitzer, who was one of 60
U.S. labor leaders to make the
fact-finding trip abroad, painted
a gloomy picture of conditions
for the working man in England
and France, but his report
brightened considerably when he
spoke on progress in Israel.

"The trip," Spitzer s a i d,
"fulfilled two of my lifelong
dreams—one to re-visit Israel
and the second to be con-
sidered worthy of the high
honor of being chosen to make
the trip in recognition of the
years of „work I have contri-
buted to our cause."

Spitzer first was in Israel in
1905. Then, he explained, it was
Palestine, and it was ruled by
the Turks. Then, too, it was just
a stopping off place before emi-
grating to the United States..
Spitzer said, "Tel Aviv in
my day was barren waste
land. Now it is a beautiful city.
What once was barren waste-
land is now productive citrus
groves. Haifa is now transform-
ed into a city more beautiful
than Los Angeles.
The highlight of the evening
was the presentation of a leath-
er-bound Bible, written in He-
brew with English translation,
to Walter Reuther. The Bible
was sent with Spitzer from the
Haifa Labor Council as a token
of its esteem for Reuther's ac-
complishments in furthering the
cause of the working man.
Reuther, who spoke briefly,
lauded Spitzer's efforts and his
union's achievement in main-
taining friendly relations with
employers. The difference, he
said, between your union and
mine, is that when you want to
negotiate you call a banquet—
when we wish to bargain we
have to call a strike.

The CIO president stated
that Israel is labor's strong
point in the Middle East, that
the growth of the Histadrut
was accomplished with little
more than spiritual strength.

He told of speaking this sum-
mer to an Israeli delegate at a
labor conference in Stockholm.
The Israeli told Reuther of Is-
rael's great struggle to irrigate
the Negev. After explaining the
process of digging artesian wells
hundreds of feet into the
ground, the Israeli added, "Of
course, every now and then, we
hope to strike oil."
Gregory Bardacke, of Histad
rut, spoke of Israel Histadrut's

tinue their , efforts in behalf of
Israel. "Without American trade
union backing of Histadrut," he
reminded his audience, "there
would be no Histadrut, and
without Histadrut there would
be no Israel."

Malenkov May Follow
Stalin's Anti-Jewish
Policy, Says Blaustein

NEW YORK; (JTA) — The

"probability" that the Malenkov
government in the Soviet Union
will carry on the anti-Semitic
program of the last years of
the Stalin regime was predicted
here tonight by Jacob Blaustein,
president of the American Jew-
ish Committee, addressing a
dinner of Jewish leaders at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel at which
the Joint Defense Appeal in-
augurated the Fall phase of its
campaign f o r $5,000,000 for
maintaining the activities of the
AJC and the Bnai Brith Anti-
Defamation League.
Mr. Blaustein attacked the
McCarran Immigration Act as
"the crudest kind of racialism
written into our country's basic
laws." He also pointed out that
the emergency law permitting
the entry of 214,000 people over
a period of almost three and a
half years embodies provisions
"so comprehensive and at the
same time so petty that even
a dog might have trouble get-
ting security clearance for ad-
mission into the country."
Philip Klutznick, president of
Bnai Brith, echoing Mr. Blau-
stein's warning against compla-
cency in the fight against dis-
crimination, said: "Because a
few victories have been achieved
some people have jumped to
the conclusion that the battle
has been won. The result has
been a certain lessening in the
sense of urgency that impells
our continuing efforts. This we
must never forget—so long as
the rights of any one group are
threatened the civil and human
rights of all are in jeopardy."

To Publish Weizmann's
Documents; Seek Letters

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Meyer

Weisgal, literary executor of the
late President Weizmann, 'ap-
pealed to all recipients of letters
from the late Zionist leader and
persons possessing any docu-
ments relating to him to send
such documents to Mr. Weisgal
at Rehovoth.
He revealed that plans are
under way to publish many
documents and letters, hitherto
unpublished, which throw addi-
tional light on Dr. Weizmann's
50 years of activities as a Zion-
ist leader and Jewish statesman.
Mr. Weisgal announced that
he has invited outstanding
scholars, historians and writers
to join the editorial board pre-
paring these documents for pub-
lication. The originals will be
stored in the Weizmann Na-
tional Archives in a building
which is being erected at the
Weizmann Memorial Center at
Rehovoth.

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role in sponsoring trade schools,

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 2, 1953

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17

Four major claims against
Austria for material losses suf-
fered by Jews under Nazi rule
are now being studied by the
Austrian government, Dr. Na-
hum ,Goldmann, chairman of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
reported upon his return from
Vienna where he discussed these
claims with Chancellor Raab on
behalf of the Conimittee for
Jewish Claims on Austria, which
represents the major Jewish or-
ganizations in the western world.
He listed the Committee's
claims as follows:

1.

Present Austrian legislation to in-
demnify victims of Nazi persecution
in Austria should be extended to
embrace thousands of former Aus-
trians who have resettled and ac-
quired citizenship in other countries.
2. Committee for Jewish Claims on
Austria is seeking a settlement for
heirless Jewish property. Funds ac-
cruing under such settlement would
be used to finance Nazi refugee
rehabilitation programs abroad. Be-
fore the Anschluss, Austria had a
Jewish population of 190,000, more
than one-third of whom perished
under the Nazis. The survivors
found refuge in other lands. The
present Austrian-Jewish population
is estimated at between 9,000 and
10,000.
3. The Nazi government sequestered
all Jewish bank accounts, and the
Committee demands that these be
unfrozen and returned to their
legitimate owners.
4. The Committee is also demanding
the return of, or compensation for,
furniture and other Jewish house-
hold goods sold on the block by
the Austrian government after the
Anschluss.

Balfour Boll to Offer Israel Airline Tickets

In keeping with the Zionist
Organization aim of fostering
greater understanding of Israel
and her position in the world
scene, contributors to this year's
Balfour Ball will have an op-
portunity to participate in the
awarding of airline tickets for a
round trip to Israel,• Harry Co-
hen and A. C. Lappin, chairmen
of the Balfour Ball Committee,
have announced.
The ball will be held Satur-
day, • Nov. 14, at Hotel Statler.
Tickets, available from Zionist
organization workers or from
the ZOD office, TO. 8-9413, are
sold in denominations of $10,
$25 and $100.
"Certainly the greatest under-
standing of Israel will be gained
by people who actually visit the
Jewish State," Cohen and Lap-

"Jewish material losses in
Austria under Nazi rule ex-
ceeded $1,200,000,000," Dr. Gold-
man said. "As in the case of
Germany, the Jews are asking
repayment for only a fraction
of these stupendous losses."
Dr. Goldmann also reported

that the West German govern-
ment, with whom he had nego-
tiated in 1951 and 1952 on behalf
of the Israel government and
the Conference on Jewish Ma-
terial Claims Against Germany,
has assumed obligations approx-
imating $2,00,000,000 in indem-
nification, restitution and rep-
arations, to present and former
German nationals. This figure
includes the $822,000,000 which
the West German government
has undertaken to pay in goods
to Israel under the Bonn-Israel
agreement signed last year.
Some one million persons 'of all
faiths, both inside and outside
Germany, will be beneficiaries
from a Federal Indemnification
Law to compensate persons who
suffered incarceration and phys-
ical mutilation under the Nazis.

pin said, "and we feel that this
unprecedented opportunity at
the Balfour Ball is important
encouragement to members of
our Detroit community to make
such a visit."
Proceeds from - the Balfour
Ball, which has been held annu-
ally for 20 years, are used to sup-
port the program of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit and the
ZOA nationally. Among the pro-
jects that contributors to the ball
help to further are Jewish youth
work, interpretation of Israel to
the American community and
members of the American gov-
ernment and promotion of Zion-
ist aims and efforts.
In addition to music by one of
Detroit's leading orchestras, the
21st Balfour Ball will feature a
refreshment lounge.

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