THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS—Fri day, January 30, 1959-6

Honor Jerusalem's Mayor Agron
at Histadrut Dessert Supper Here

Truman Becomes
Honorary Head
of Young Judea

Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of
Knesset, Dies at Age of 74

Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of and a daughter. Another son,
the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, David, was- killed in the Israel
Gershon Agron, Mayor of
NEW YORK (JTA)—For-
died in the Hadassah Hospital in War of Independence in 1948.
Jerusalem, will be honored at
mer President Harry S. Tru-
The deceased leader had been
at a dessert supper sponsored
Jerusalem at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
man has accepted the honor-
Speaker of the Knesset since
by the Detroit Israel Histadrut
ary presidency of Young
JTA reports, as we go to 1949. He was Acting Interim
Campaign at 8:30 p.m., Sunday,
Jude a, oldest and largest
press, that Mr. Sprinzak had a President of Israel from Novem-
in the Schaver auditorium of
Zionist youth organization in
ber 1951 to December 1952, be-
the Hayim Greenberg Center,
the United States which is
tween the terms of the late Dr.
19161 Schaefer.
currently marking its 50th
Chaim Weizmann and the pres-
The entire community has
anniversary. At a ceremony
ent President Itzhak Ben-Zvi.
at the Truman Library in
been invited to hear Agron's
Mr. Sprinzak was one of the
address. Appearing with him on
Independence, Mo., the for-
original founders of the Hista-
the program will be Masha
mer President was presented
drut in 1920. He also was one
with the organization's
Benya, popular interpreter of
of the organizers of the power-
Yiddish and Israeli folk music.
emblem.
ful Tzeirei Tzion movement in
Agron, who is coming here
Russia in 1905.
directly from Israel, will make
He was a member of the Jew-
New Weizmann Book
Detroit his first stop in a tour
ish Agency Executive and a
Ste
of the United States that will
Appraises his Work
powerful figure in many of its
be extended for several weeks.
A biographical appraisal of
departments and was a leader
Not only will he explain the
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first
in many of the World Zionist
recent progress of the State of
president of Israel, has been
Organization activities. He
Israel, he also will relate the
released by Farrar, Straus and
traveled widely throughout the
emergency requirements en-
Cudahy (101 Fifth, New York
world in behalf of Zionist
gendered by the rising immigra- GERSHON AGRON
3). The book on the eminent
JOSEPH SPRINZAH
causes and was well known in
Lion to Israel of Romanian,:
statesman and scientist is writ-
Detroit, having spoken here for
Jewry.
heart
attack
at
noon
Wednrs-
ten by Sir Isaiah Berlin, Chich-
Histadrut and other causes on
In addition to his chores as Crohn Urges Housing
day,
was
rushed
to
the
hospital
Mayor of Jerusalem, Agron is' Fund for U.S. Citizens ele professor of social and and died several hours later. several occasions.
political theory at the Univer-
the editor and publisher of Is
sity of Oxford and Fellow of The JTA report states that Mr.
rael's only English-language Who Settle in Israel
All Souls. The book is titled Sprinzak only a few days ago
daily newspaper, the Jerusalem
returned to the Knesset after
Lawrence W. Crohn, Detroit "Chaim Weizmann."
Post.
Zionist leader, president of the I
Among other books slated being in the hospital for several
COAL & OIL CO.
He spent his youth in Phila-
for early release by Farrar, weeks as a result of his first
delphia, Pa., where he worked Jewish
Community
Council,
Serving Detroit
heart attack.
who is visiting in Israel with
on a number of English-Jewish Mrs. Crohn, has addressed an Straus and Cudahy are "The
Born in Russia, Feb. 24, 1885,
Homes and Industry
newspapers. For several years appeal to American Jews, from American Bridge to the Israel Mr. Sprinzak came to Palestine
for Over 45 Years
he was editor of the Jewish Tel Aviv, urging support of a Commonwealth," by Bernard A. in 1908. He enrolled in the
Rosenblatt, to be released in
Telegraphic Agency.
movement that has been April, and "Israel's Odyssey," American University of Beirut
After coming to Palestine, launched to assist American
in 1909.
Agron served as a correspond- and Canadian settlers in Israel by Abraham Mayer Heller, set
He is survived by two sons
ent for British newspapers and in solving their housing prob- for a May release date.
was the Palestinian delegate to lem.
Hawaii.
He called upon American
Sunday's program also will and Canadian Jews to set up
serve to honor a number of lo- a loan fund upon which Is-
cal workers in the Detroit ranks raeli settlers from those
of the Histadrut, all of whom countries could draw in meet-
have served the campaign for ing mortgage and downpay-
a quarter of a century. They are: ment requirements. He said
Max Abrams, Maurice Baker,
Abraham Beitner, Jacob Brody, that such monies are extreme-
Morris Chasnick, Norman Cottler, ly difficult to obtain in Israel
Maurice Gelfand, Morris Ginsburg, and available only at very high
Louis Goldsmith, Philip D. Goldstein,
Samuel J. Greenberg, Morris Gure- interest rates and for short
vitch, Morris Haye, Laible Hoffmitz, periods only.
William Hordes, Sol Kanat, Samuel
Kane, William Klafer, David Krause,
He said that Israel Bond
Morris Lachover, Benjamin M.
Laikin, Max Lieberman and Morris credit may be turned over to
the loan fund, which will pay
Lieberman.
Others are Louis Levine, Jack interest at the rate of five
Malamud, Morris Malin, Benjamin
Naimark, Louth Phillips, Irving Po- percent per year in American
kempner, Walter Rabinowitz, Na- dollars. He noted that the plan
than Rose, Morris Ross, Dr. Alex-
ander W. Sander s, Morris L. has Israel government approval
Schaver, Alexander Schreier, Jack and such funds are already
Schreier, Morritz Schubiner, Harry
Schumer, Sidney Shevitz, Max maintained by British and
Schmukler, Harold Silver, Julius M. South African Jews for settlers
`c
Singer, David Sislin, David Tabock, from their respective regions.
Alter Wineman and Julius Zemmol.

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Israel Outproducing Turkey, Egypt
Percentage-Wise, UN Report Says

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(JTA)—In proportion to popu-
lation, Israeli industry outpro-
duces Turkey and Egypt, • pays
its workers higher wages, and
is growing faster in manufac-
turing, according to a report is-
sued here by the United Nations
Department of Economic and
Social Affairs.
However, the reporf states,
due to its rapid rise in popu-
lation--both through a relative-
ly high birth rate and through
large-scale immigration—Israel
is now faced with an urgent
and difficult development prob-
lem."
Wages in Israel, states the
report, "are not only higher
than in Egypt or Turkey, but
also higher than in several more
industrialized countries." Com-
parable statistics in the report
show that, in manufacturing, the
average hourly earning of an
Israeli worker is 48 cents, while
it is 27 cents in Turkey, and 11
cents in Egypt.
Israel's hourly manufacturing
wage-rate is shown to exceed
Western Germany's, where it
is 40 cents; and that in France,
where it is 38 cents.
The report continues, "while
labor costs in Israel are com-
parable with those in Western
European countries, production
per worker is much lower."
Israel's labor productivity is
"perhaps only about 50 percent

of that in many industrial na-
tions," the report declares, "and
probably in the vicinity of 25
percent of productivity in the
United States."
In general," the report says,
the technical competence of the
enterprenurial class (in Israel)
seems to be on a much lower
level than their commercial
skills. Most members of the en-
terprenurial class are immi-
grants from Europe, few of
whom have had previous indus-
trial experience. The majority
of present enterpreneurs started
as merchants or artisans whose
workshops have expanded into
small factories."
The report states further:
"In Israel, before 1948, many
immigrants were skilled work-
ers, and industry was relatively
well supplied. But thereafter,
the proportion of skilled immi-
grants fell, as the composition
by country of origin changed.

Most new immigrants must re-
ceive some training before they

can be employed.
"In addition, the egalitarian
wage system, which minimizes
the differential in wages be-
tween skilled and unskilled,
has discouraged the acquisition
of skills. There is thus at pres-
ent a shortage of trained per-
sonnel in Israel."

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