The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-23
AMERICAN JEWS
REACH ENGLAND
FOR CONVENTION
Brandeis, Straus. Others Will
Urge Broad Platform
For Zionists

LONDON, June 23.-Public owner
ship of land cooperative common
wealth, and equal rights for all, were
advocated here today as the three
leading principles in The social pro
gram American ZiOnists desire in
corporated in the project for the
Jewish Homeland in Palestine, by
Jacob de Haas, executive secretary
of the Zionist Organization OF Am
erica
Mr. de Haas arrived in London to-
day with United States Supreme
Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Honorary President of the Zionist
Organization of America; Judge Ju-
lien w. Mack, president; Nathan
Strauss, Mrs. Mary Fels, Prof. Felix
Frankfurter, Capt. Abraham Tulin,
David Rosenbloom and Louis Lipsky
organization secretary. These are
the advance guard of the 80 dele
gates of American Zionists to the
Wodld Zionist Conference convention
in London July 4.
Urge Pittsburgh Program
American Zionists will make a unit
ed effort to have the Pittsburgh
program, which they adopted in 1913
as the guiding social principles for
the Jewish Homeland, approved By
the World Conference in the program
II will fnrt,1t,Iatn for hn IN "a
carried out in Palestine Mr.. de
Haas, in the statement he gave out
on the eve of what is considered
the most important and significant
Jewish World conference ever held,
stressed re progressive tenets of
the Pittsburgh program, declaring:
1.-THE Zionists are not going to be
satisfied with a Palestine or land
of Israel. which will be mere dupli-
cate of the numerous small states Of
Europe or South America They be-
lieve that the 1000 years of suffer
ing and martyrdom of the wandering
Jew has given to our race a wealth
of experience, which added to the
ancient heritage of the Jew, can be
made fruitful in the creation of a
model settlement in the land of our
forefathers.
Platform Summarized
- THE Pittsburgh platform may be
summarized as follows: % Public
ownership of land (2), the Cooper
alive Commonwealth; 80, Equal
Rights. The first is expressed III
the phrase that the land of Pales-
tine shall be owned or controlled
for the benefit of the people of Pal
estine as a whole. The Zionists of
America have resolved that the benz
fits which come through increasing
land values will not 60 into the
pockets of the land spectators, but
will always remain community val
ues,' which will go into the public
treasury.
THE second principle indicates
that the Zionists of America are
resolved to encourage cooperative
enterprise to the largest extent pos
sible, so that a cooperative common
wealth may be gradually evolved.
without however. crushing indivi1
ual initiative. There is no simple
formula by which the cooperative
commonwealth can be achieved-it
must be Development through
struggle and experimentation. In
any event, we have set the goal!
THE third principle in one with
which all Americans are familiar-at
least in theory, though we may fall
short in actual practice. Whereas,
we confine our program of equal
rights to the narrow field of poll
tics, the Zionists of America would
apply it to all of Palentinian life
to politics and economics, to law and
industry, to man and woman, to
every sect and every creed"