The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
IMMIGRANTS ARE
TO Be ENCOURAGED
An Agricultural and Manufac-
turing Plant is Proposed
RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED
President Lewis Meyer and Secretary
Nat Strauss Will Go to New York
for Funds to Establish
The Plant.
RESOLUTION is ADOPTED

The Independent Order Of Mai BIRTH
of District No. has taken steps to es-
tablish at some convenient point in the
south an agricultural and manufacturing
plant for the employment of Jewish immi-
grants until they are able to find lucra-
tive employment.
The local lodge at Tyler, Tex. has a
farm operated on this principle and for
this purpose which is proving very sue
cessful and of great help to the race.
The great difficulty in securing immi-
grants in the south is the fact that these
people are unable to get a foothold on
farms Upon arrival. Most of them are
financially unable to buy farms or MAIN
tain themselves and families until they
ind positions
The idea proposed by the officers of the
B'Nai BIRTH Is to maintain an institution
where theso immigrants may be taken
care of and taught the art of farming
and various manufacturing trades. 1t is
proposed to spend something like a quar-
ter of a million dollars in the establish
ment of the institution.
immigration from Russia and Roumania
is TO be especially encouraged.
After the close of the B'Nai BIRTH con-
vention at the city hall Wednesday night
office held a meeting and selected a COM
mittee to go to New York for the pur-
pose of looking into the matter of seeur-
Ing funds for this purpose which SUBJ
committee had been authorized in a reso-
luton adopted In the convention. Pres
ident Lewis Meyer and Secretary Nat
Strauss were selected as committee for
this work.
Committee Reports.
The report of the Industrial removal
office committee. which was adopted, is
an interesting paper and reads as fol-
lows;
Birmingham, Ala, May 2, 1905.
To the officers and members of ID. G. L.
No. T. in convention assembled, Bir-
mingham, Ala:
Brethren-We, the committee to whom
was assigned the consideration of the
work of the industrial removal office, beg
leave to report that we have debated fully
and extensively the important matters
connected Herewith and have called to
our assistance the experiences of the in
dividual members of the committee to aid
us in our conclusion
While fully approaching the benefits re-
sulting from the operation of the indus-
trial removal office we feel that its scope
Is too limited to deal fully with the
magnitude which the Jewish immigration
problem has assumed. and that its pres
ent methods are totally inadequate to
meet the purposes for which its estab-
lishment was intended.
Jewish immigration.
Since the creation OF the Industrial
removal office Jewish immigration has
increased to such stupendous proportions
that 1t now approximates one hundred
thousand annually. The number of cases
disposed by the industrial removal Of
flee during the past three years reach the
small number of five thousand C50O0) each
year. and even of this number certain
proportion comes from such immigrants
as are not recent arrivals, but have re-
sided for some time in New York and are
therefore less receptive of the new condi-
tons that await them in the south. IT
must he obvious that the industrial re-
moval office under its existing methods Is
absolutely unable to cope with the dis
tribution of the larger influx that Is con-
tinually crowding to our shores Your
committee has therefore come to the
unanimous conclusion that new plans Of
action are absolutely essential for the
proper solution and disposition of this
over-shadowing problem.
We have carefully delberated upon the
systems which, If adopted, would more
successfully facilitate the purposes In
view. and, therefore recommend the fol
lowing:
Farm Life.
First 9. hat it is both advisable and inn
portant that we should endeavor to pro-
mote settlement of a larger number of
Jews upon the soil. While it is sometimes
insisted that a love for agricultural life
is not predominant in Jewish character
OF modern times, 1t remains an indisput-
able fact, that, under proper supervision
and favorable environments, the jew can
become eminently successful as a Tar
mer and II a favorable opportunity is
presented to those, who, by early train
Ing, aud affinity to the soil are predisr
posed to agriculture, there is no reason
for the slightest doubt, that small Jewish
settlements judiciously organized, can be
successfully established within the terri
tory embraced in district No. 7. Your conf
mjttee listened with delight TO report
nv one of its m mbers of such asettle-
ment located near Tyler Tex, whleh IS
making gratifying progress ana holds out
the promise of great success
Second We consider of great Importance
The creation of manufacturing industries
for the employment of such Of the I'M
MIGRANTS as are, either untitled Tor or
to take up agrlcultural pnr-
suits This recommendation is not In
tended to embrace such as have a liked
vocation In any of the branches OF skilled
labor or modern commerce. your conf
mittee realizes that successful pursult
of the ideas herein suggested would involve
a large original outlay OF money ana
that some person or dessnat-
ed committee to be appointed by tnls
shall as promptly as may be
exnedient communicate with the trustees
of the Baron de Hirsch fund OF New
York. for the purpose of ascertalning
whether such funds necessary Tor the
of the purposes herein
indicated are available and the conditions
mon which IT may be obtained. Your COM
mittee is of the opinion that this fund
was created for such purposes and SO
Intended by the original behest, ana ihat
I'VE are properly entitled to a certain
share of this fund, due to the fact tnat
the burden of taking care OF ana proVla-
ing for these immigrants has fallen large
~ on our shoulders. In our endedvors 70
onen nm for them the path to happy |
and independent existence.
Respectfully submitted
ISAAC sCHWARZ, chm.
JOSEPH FRIEDLANDER.
BURNETT WADELL'
MARTIN ZIELONKA,