Labor Parley. Asks U. S. Guarantee
of Israel's Territorial Integrity
UNITY HOUSE, Pa. (JTA)-- American Trade Union Council
A resolution calling upon the for Histadrut.
American Government to guar-
The 200 delegates from all
antee the territorial integrity parts of the country also
and independence of Israel was adopted a resolution condemn-
adopted here at the conclusion
. ing "the publicly expressed aims
of a four-day conference of tne of the Arab leaders to destroy
the democratic state of Israel."
The resolution said these aims
were "diametrically opposed to
the purposes and charter of the
United Nations in which these
same Arab countries claim mem-
bership." The delegates also re-
solved that "there is no room
"Be it my will that Justice be for complacency as long as Ger-
ruled by my Mercy." These man and other missile scientists
words from the Talmud, often are working to build up the
quoted by Benjamin Nathan Car- deadly arsenal of N a s s e r's
dozo, distinguished judge of the Egypt." .
United States Supreme Court,
Dr. Saul Stein, executive di-
epitomize the spirit of this
scholarly, positive Jew. Today, rector of the National Com-
mittee for Labor Israel, par-
a quarter of a
ent body of the American
century after
Trade Union Council for His-
his death, the
tadrut, announced the estab-
judicial w i s -
lishment in Israel of a num-
dom he exer-
ber of medical and vocational.
cised in the
training facilities as well as
nation's high-
cultural institutions under the
est court, has
auspices of American trade
left an endur-
unions.
i n g mark on
Louis Stulberg, secretary-treas-
t h e Constitu-
urer of the International Ladies
tional history
Garment Workers of America in
of the United
a report on. his visit to Israel
States.
last April praised the work of
At the
the Histadrut's Afro Asian Insti-
American
tute for Labor Studies in Tel
Jewish Ar-
Aviv. He said the Institute was
chives, in Cin-
"uniquely fit to serve the future
cinnati, there
leaders of the emerging na-
can be found
tions."
a unique col-
lection of Car-
George Meany, president of
d o z o's per-
the AFL-CIO, is one of the two
sonal letters, Cardozo
co-chairmen of the Institute. The
addressed to his cousin, Annie other co-chairman is Eliahu
Nathan Meyer, the well-known Elath, president of the •Hebrew
author and lecturer who was a University of Jerusalem. Ameri-
founder of Barnard College for can trade unions contribute to
Women. His warm, informal let- the scholarship program of the
ters to his cousin reflect Car- Institute, which helps practically
dozo's devotion to his family all of its 160 students annually.
and friends and reveal his sense
Undersecretary of Labor
of humor.
John F. Henning, who also
Cardozo had deep roots in addressed the delegates, drew
America. His Sephardic Jewish parallels between the demo-
ancestors came to New York be- cratic structures of Israel and
fore the Revolution. His great- the United States. Israel has
great-grandfather, "Rabbi" Ger- a great instinct for humani-
shorn Mendes Seixas, was re- tarianism, he said. "This is
warded for his patriotism in the due largely to the 'efforts of
American struggle for independ- Histadrut which is a jewel of
ence by being appointed a Trus- pioneering democracy." He
tee of Columbia University. Al- said Israel was ahead of the
most 200 years later, Gershom United States with regard to
Seixas' great-great-g rand so n, unemployment since Israel has
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, was a rate of only • one per cent
appointed a trustee of Columbia, unemployed and the United
the second Jew in the history of States has 5.6 per cent.
Ben-Zion Ilan, American rep-
the College to hold that distinc-
resentative of the Histadrut,
tion.
speaking on Histadrut's role in
When, in 1932, Justice the shaping of Israel's society
Holmes, who was Cardozo's idol, told the American Labor leaders
resigned from the U. S. Supreme about the mutual aid and co--
C o u r t, Republican President operative program of Histadrut,
Hoover was urged to appoint a major feature of Israel's eco-
Cardozo in his place. He hesi- nomic and social life. He
tated for two reasons: there stressed that Histadrut was "an
were already two Judges on the op-en house" for the absorption
bench from New York, and Car- of new immigrants which can-
dozo was a Jew and a Demo- not be accomplished by institu-
crat. Senator William Borah, tional means alone.
Conservative Republican leader
from -Idaho, convinced President
.
Hoover on both counts when he Erect 2 Buildings
said, "Cardozo belongs as much for Bnai Brith Youth
to Idaho as to New York," and Leadership Program
"the way to deal with anti- - STARLIGHT, Pa. -- Construc-
Semitism is not to yield to it." tion began this week' of two new
By confirming Cardozo'sAp- -buildings to be used for the Bnai
pointment, Hoover ignored geog- Brith Youth Organization's sum-
raphy and made history.
mer leadership training program
Cardozo believed that a Judge for Jewish teen-agers at Camp
must be "an historian and a Bnai Brith here.
When completed, the two fa-
prophet in one." Though he was cilities
will have meeting-room
gentle and withdrawn by na- accommodations for 240' persons.
ture, his six years on the bench They will also provide class-
of the Supreme Court coincided rooms, an auditorium, an arts
with one of the most tempestu- and crafts center, a library and
ous periods in the Court's his- bookshop.
tory. He favored much of Frank-
Cost of the twin structures.
lin D. Roosevelt's New Deal which will be named, in honor of
legislation, and between 1934-37, Bnai Brith President Label A.
he sided with the Roosevelt ad- Katz and former president Philip
ministration in 22 out of the 27 M. Klutznick, is estimated at
laws upon which the court was $125,000. Funds are being raised
called to rule. No judge in his by BBYO chapters and alumni
time was better versed in the of Aleph Zadik Aleph, its boys'
history of common law, and none component. Katz and Klutznick
ever gave himself more happily are products of the BBYO move-
to his position of high trust.
ment.
Influence of
Cardozo on LS.-
Supreme Court
U. S. Correspondent Finds Jews Deprived of Culture in Minsk
NEW YORK, (JTA)—There
is little evidence of any Yiddish
culture in Minsk, a city rich
in Jewish history, it was report-
ed by David Miller, correspon-
dent of the New York Herald
Tribune, who is currently visit-
ing the capital of Byelorussia in
the Soviet Union.
The correspondent noted that
there are no Byelorussian Yid-
dish-language books or news-
papers in the stores although
Byelorussia publishes 128 news-
papers and last year issued
1,612 book titles. He said Yid-
dish writers appear either in
the Moscow-published Yiddish
magazine, Soviet Homeland, or
in translation. Yiddish is not
taught in any school, not even
as a specialized course in one
of the institutes of higher learn-
ing. Concerts in Yiddish are
given in Minsk, but there is no
permanent theater.
The only synagogue in Minsk,
where nearly 120 flourished be-
fore the 1917 revolution is sche-
duled for demolition by Com-
munist officials as part of a
new construction project. It is
not known where religious
Jews will gather to pray after
the ancient synagogue is swept
away. -,
There are some 59,000 Jews
in Minsk, according to the lat-
est Soviet census. Jews in the
city constitute about eight per
cent of the population. In all
of Byelorussia, there are about
150,000 Jews, about two per cent
of the population.
At the Byelorussian state mu-
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MERCURY
USTOM QUALIT Y
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PAINTS
Toronto Sets Record
in UJA Campaign
TORONTO, (JTA)—The 1963
United JeWish Appeal campaign
"will achieve the highest total
of any campaign to date in
Toronto UJA's history," Ray D.
Wolfe, chairman of this year's
campaign, told an overflow
crowd at the closing workers
meeting.
5eum of the history of the Sec-
ond World War, the correspon-
dent found almost no reminders
of the holocaust suffered by the
Jews under the Nazis. Of the
4,500 photographs, documents
and exhibits, only one—a news-
paper clipping ordering the
creation of the Minsk Jewish
ghetto in the early days of the
Nazi occupation—was on dis-
play.
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