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Vol. 7, No. 21
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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936
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World Jews Urged to Orsanize
To Prevent Violations of Rights
Palestine Is Main Topic of Congress Discussion At First Session
The Balfour Declaration and Obliigations of the British Grovern-ment and All Nations Thait Signed the Covenant of the League Forcefully Discussed
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[SSION ON ANTI-SEMITISM SET UP
CONGRESS IHADER
GENEVA, (Palcor Agency)—^The Jews of the v/orld were called upon "to organize a solid wall of resistance to the threatened violation of Jewish rights in Palestine" in a speech to the delegates of the World Jewish Congress, by Louis Lipsky, Vice-President of the American Jewish Congress and American member of the World Zionist Executive.
His address struck the keynote at a session devoted to the present disorders in Palestine, marking the first time since the disturbances began on April 19 th that an international Jewish body has considered the numerous questions arising out of the Arab revolt against the Jewish National Home policy in Palestine.
Voicing the view that Jews were in Palestine not merely as a result of an agreement with Great Britain but because of international covenants which has been signed by the powers of the League of Nations and other governments, the speakers appealed to these same nations not to permit "the sacrifice of the Jews for the sake of easing an immediate situation."
The speakers had reference to the possibility, emphasized in a message to the Congress from David ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, of the suspension by Great Britain of Jewish immigration to Palestine before the Royal Commission, headed by Lord Peel, goes to the Holy Land for its investigation of the disorders.
The Royal Commission was criticized, the suspension of immigration was assailed and the relation of the world powers to the Palestine mandate were discussed in the speeches of Mr. Lipsky, Dr. Stephen S. "Wise, Dr. , Isaac Gruenbaum, member of the Jewish Agency Executive, Berl Locker, fprmer member, and Dr. M. L. Perlzweig of England.
After the addresses, directions were given to a special commission on Palestine v/hich will be entrusted with the formulation of a declaration of the issue to be voted by the World Jewish Congress.
"Palestine is the concern not only of Great Britain but of the League and of all civilization," it was asserted by Dr. Wise as he condemned the possibility of "yielding to the Arab attacks in Palestine by suspending Jewish immigration."
Through all the speeches and the determination not to accept what was called "any breach of the mandate or any diminution of Jewish rights
in Palestine."   • ... .....,
The session, opened by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, was presided over by Louis Lipsky, who placed the problem of Palestine on a broad international basis ( asserting that "it is not a question of Arab murder and sabotage bue of a breach of an international covenant which was made by the nations of the world and representatives of the Arab people."
He called for "a defense of Jewish rights in Palestine by those who signed the peace treaties, endorsed the Balfour Declaration, the Palestine "andate, and profited thereby."
EXCERPTS FROM LOUIS LIPSKY'S SPEECH During his  address,  Mr. Lipsky id: "What is transpiring in Pales-ne cannot be segregated from the jad foundation of national rights id the attack upon an internation-' pact whose boundaries extend be-jnd Palestine.    It involes pledges id covenants to which the free con-Int of nations was given and regis-pred, and in accordance with which le Jews have acted in good faith id assumed long-term responsibili-|es, making deposits of labor, capi-il and sacrifices."
Reviewing the history of the Palatine mandate, Mr. Lipsky said that lefore the peace conference the ailed nations individually • endorsed Bie mandate and when Great Britain l^as entrusted with the mandatory ly the League to foster a Jewish Na-lional Home world opinion had been jegistered for years.
"Under the same international Igreement," he declared, "as estab-Ished rights for Jews in Palestine, jther dismembered nations and peoples were freed and protected. Va-jious Arab states were set up in [audi Arabia, Iraq and Syria. An-fther Arab state was set up in Trans-jordania despite the breach of the Igreement with Jews. Organized tovernment for the Arabs was con-idered, oppressors were removed, taxation was lessened and their kings k^ere maintained with the power and Authority of member states of the f^eagu'e.
'An agreement was made then Ivith a man who appeared then as the pnly accredited representative, not bnly of Palestine Arabs but of the Whole Arabic people (referring to |:he late King Feisal).
"If there is a breach of peace now In Palestine, in which the work of the Jews is sabotaged and the impli-;ations of the Mandate are denied, it is a breach in which  the whole
Black Legion Plan To Bomb Meetings
CANTOR PINCHK
Chemist Member of Black Legion Reveals Plot
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DETROIT—Hideous methods of harming Jews were revealed by Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrae while investigating movements of the Black Legion. Bombing of Jewish meetings and institutions and the killing of Jews by poison gas and hypodermic needles was seriously considered by the Black Legion.
Result of gruelling cross-questioning of a chemist, implicated in the Black Legion plot, was the admission that the scheme of poisoning Detroit Jewry by infecting milk and cottage cheese with typhoid germs was another method to destroy Jews. Charles T. McCutcheon, the chemist, and Black Legion member, revealed the poison plot and a high Black Legion oflFicial talked of making bombs to throw into meetings and automobiles.
The Black Legion also planned to make poison gas to be introduced through keyholes of rooms and to use needles for injecting poison into people on the streets or in theatres.
RICH JEWS FORCED TO SUPPORT REBELS
A. F. of L. Supports
Vv orid Jewish Congress
Message of Greeting Received From William Green
GENEVA, (Palcor Agency)
Cantor Pinchik To Sing Here
LONDON—^According to reports this week in the London press three of the wealthiest Jews in Spanish Morocco were forced to contribute one million francs to the coffers of the Spanish Rebels.
THOUSANDS LOSE JOBS IN BELGIUM
ANTWERP—A law which bars work to aliens without special permits and forbids the granting of such permits to aliens when there are unemployed Belgians threatens the position of thousands of foreign Jews, including many German-Jewish refugees.
Insanity Plea
For Nazi Slayer
Vancouver Jewry is to be afforded a'treat with the presence of Pierre Pinchik, world renowned Jewish Cantor.
Thirty-eight year old Pinchik has been chanting the ancient melodies of Israel for many years. His record dktes back as far as the Soviet revolution where his golden voice earned him a livelihood singing for red mass demonstrations. A bachelor and a proud owner of a Palestinian orange grove where his sister and three brothers live. Cantor Pinchik arrives ir^ Vancouver on Monday morning from Seattle.
On Friday, August 28, he will chant the services at the Schara Tzedek Synagogue and on Sunday evening he will conduct a concert of Hebrew folk songs and melodies at the Schara Tzedek Synagogue un-:der the auspices and for the benefit of the Vancouver Talmud Torah.
Vancouver Jewry are urged not to miss the splendid opportunity of hearing this greatly-famed cantor.
Mr. Hyman, Cantor Pinchik's business manager, is in Vancouver m,aking arrangements for the Cantor's visit here. Mr. Hyman, who managed world famed Cantor Josef Rosenblatt for 14 years and managed Opera Star, discovered Bobby Breen boy star on Eddie Cantor's program, whose real name is Jackie Borusk.
Seven million Jews, almost half the total Jewish population of the world, are represented at the World Jewish Congress which opened at the meeting hall of the League of Nations, it was announced by the organizers of the Congress.
The majority of the more than 250 delegates represent Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgari, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Esthonia, England, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Spain, Switzerland, Tunis, United States, Uraguay and Yugoslavia.
Among the messages of endorsement and support addressed to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, who is chairman of the World Jewish Congress, was one from William Green,
SENDS GREETINGS
Courtesy Vancouver Sun WILLIAM GREEN
president of the American Federation of Labor,   who   said : "The
American Federation of Labor greets the World Jewish Congress as a new organ devoted to the principles of human liberty and the protection of human rights.
"The American Federation of Labor stands with the World Jewish Congress in defense of the protection of rights of minorities, for the complete protection of human rights and in opposition to the practise of discrimination against any group because of race or religion."
The League of Nations, which will conceivably be called upon in the future to act in protection of Jewish rights as guaranteed by it, was represented by an official observer as were the International Labor OflFice and the International Nansen Office.
A number of legations were represented by officials, among them French Consul Peron of Geneva, representing the French Ambassador; Casimir Trebicki, first secretary of the Polish legation, representing the Polish Minister; A. Ehrler, counsellor of the Canton of Geneva, representing'the President of the Republic, as well as a number of others.
Messages of support were read from Lord Robert Cecil of England, honorary president of the International Federation of League of Nations Associations; Henri Berenger, president of the French Senate, and permanent representative of France to the League; Paul Boncour, French Senator, and French League of Nations fcprcsentative; Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist" Organization, and a numlkf ■ 6f other famous Jewish communal leaders, rabbis, journalists and writers.
Brief greetings to the Congress were spoken by Prof. William Rap-pard, Swiss representative on the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League, Saly Meyer, president of the Federation of Swiss communities, M. Alder, head of the Geneva Jewish community and Mr. Ehrler, on behalf of the President of Switzerland.
Gen. Hugh Johnson
Calls Down Politicians
Courtesy Vancouver Sun RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE
Arab people are morally and politically implicated and compromised."
Calling vpon the World Jewish Congress to defend the rights of the Mandate and upon every "lover of justice and international peace to condemn whatever attempts may be made through the Royal Commission or its investigation to sacrifice Jewish rights under the Mandate for the sake of immediate order or the easing of an immediate situation," Mr. Lipsky emphasized the critical situation which now exists.
"The Jewish communities of the world," he cried, "must organize into a solid wall of resistance to the threatened violation of Jewish rights
which might be made as a gesture to the Arabs as a reward for their policy of destruction." BRITON SCORES APPOINTMENT OF ROYAL COMMISSION The Rev. M. L. Perlzweig of Lon-
allowed two days to elapse before
Hon scored the appointment of the Royal Commission and demanded of the British Government an assur-ince that the Palestine events would be closely examined. He charged [the Palestine administration with re-Isponsibility for the disorders, staring that it was unprepared and had
proper action was taken. He asserted that the Government had used Arab strikers to drive Arab cars and busses to convey British troops, thus apprizing Arabs of troop movements.
(Continued next week)
GENEVA—Entering a plea of insanity David Frankfurter, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, charged with a premeditated murder of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader of Switzerland, will not go on trial before he is given a psychiatric examination, it was announced last week.
Frankfurter shot Gustloff last February in a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, meant as a blow against the Nazi government.
Roumania Bans
Antisemitism
BUCHAREST — All anti-semitic meetings have been forbidden here according to a decree issued by the government. Several battalions of troops have been despatched to the Black Sea vacation resorts to protect Jewish patrons from terrorist bands of Cuzists and Iron Guardists.
High school students have been forbidden to participate in political activities in the hope of preventing student attacks on Jews. The ban, however, is not applicable to university students.
ROYAL COMMISSION BOOKS PASSAGE
LONDON, (Palcor Agency) — Steamship passage to Palestine has been booked for October by members of the Royal Commission, it was reported today in the Manchester Guardian.
The paper adds that their departure is uncertain if the disorders will not have been terminated. The Guardian also points out that the Government attitude toward immigration, as defined by the Colonial Secretary, remains against suspension while the disturbances continue.
Jew Supports
Hitler's Action
Disagreement Between Canadian and Jew Ends in Court
JEWESS HONORED
BY SOVIET;
MOSCOW—-For exceeding her production quota in the perfume trust, of which she is the head, Mrs, Molotov, wife of Premier Molotov, received the honor of Lenin, the highest decoration in the Soviet Union.
NEW YORK—Hitler's action in not shaking hands with Jesse Owens, recent United States negro Olympic winner, caused controversy between a Jew and a Canadian, and ended up in a migistrate's court at the end of the day.
The Can.idian, George Rowland, a Jew, said that Jack Silver, Negro, and fellow-worker at a watch company, had threatened to "put him on the spot" or "stick a knife in his back."
Magistrate Murphy dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against Silver and as the two disputants left the courtroom Rowland asked for protection but got no reply. Silver asked the policeman if he could take a punch at Rowland but was shooed
NEW YORK—The weekly syndicated column written by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson made clear that such anti-semitism as exists in the United States is personal, not political prejudice, but, the way to mak? it political is exactly the method Mr. Hamilton has blunderingly adopted —to drag it into the campaign by letting a political leader get all heated up about it.
Revealing the recent statement by Mr. Hamilton, Republican campaign chairman, that President Roosevelt had insisted Governor Lehman run again to catch Jewish votes in New York and that the plan of Geomc Peek, ex-New Dealer, to sell 8,000 bales of cotton to Germany had been blocked by "Jewish influence" in the Roosevelt administration, Gen. Johnson declared that both men had pressed the keys that opened the organ pipes of prejudice and intolerance."
Warning that "the Jewish people are not an issue in this campaign because they don't vote as a people and the candidate who counts on that is in for disappointment," declared General Johnson.
"If we are to maintain the principles of the American constitutional electoral system—the greatest political .advance in human history— and not go stampeding off to th? psychopathic, i f not sadistic, extremes of some European countries, or repeat the shameful bigotry of 192 8, we will rebuke any man in public life who departs from the rules of our game.
CONDEMNS
Courtesy Vancouver Sun GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON
"He can villify Democrats, Republicans, Communists, Socialists, Townscnditcs, Coughlinitcs, Farmer-Laboritcs, Epics or any political creed until he is black in the face.
"But when he begins to talk po-iiticaily about the Mormons, Jews, Methodists, Catholics or any other religious group he is distinctly off the reservation. He is perpetrating a political foul for which he ought to be licked, if for no other reason."
out of the room.
The argument had been one cf long standing. When the two went to work on Tuesday they renewed it.
"Owens ran like hell," said Sil-
ver, "and then Hitler wouldn't even sh.nke hands with him!"
"Well," replied Rowland (the Jew), "I still think it was Hitler's privilege not to shake hands with a colored man."