Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
RELIEF FOR JEWS
IN RUSSIA FIXED
Representatives En- Route
Home, Say U. S. Gives No
Aid to Stricken Citizens.
BY HAL OF'LAHERTY.
ny liable to The Star and Chicago
Daiiy News. Copyright. 1922.


SIoSkHOLM. July 17.-Judge Har-
ry Fisher of Chicago and Max Pine
OF New York have just reached Stock
noim after successfully arranging
Tor the relief of Jews within soviet
russia and the Ukraine. They have
mad a strenuous. time and appear to
De completely fatigued. but they are
happy over the outcome of their Eff
| forts
With the fun cooperation of the
soviet government we have arranged
TOT committees in Moscow and the
| otner principal Russian cities to dis
tribute money and supplies sent from
the Cnlted states" said Judge Fisher
/ today. For the first time since the
esta blishment of the soviet govern
neht IL mas allowed a charitable COM
mlttee TO organize in Russia with
representatives of all political ele-
mentS, including the mensheviki the
| right socialists and the bourgoisic.
we obtained this privilege because
! of the existence of an extraordinary
situation in which the lives of many
thousands of Jews are at stake. The
hrst six carloads of American sup
pies consisting of milk medicines
ana so on. reached US on July 3. just
| before We left Many hundreds Of
tons followed immediately.
All Treated Alike.
we have no complaint to make
against the attitude of the soviet
government toward the Jews. who
nave suffered extreme hardships. but
nave had exactly the same treatment
from the government as has other
nauonalities. There have been no
pogroms within soviet Russia, but in
the Ukraine there have been several,
the latest being reported in the path
OF the retreating Poles and Ukrain
ians, who are said to have killed
eighty Jews at Jidomir in Nolhynia
on July Z, and to have carried off
their valua bles
| In negotiating with the soviet Of
nclalS we came into continuous con-
tact with all elements. who expressed
| universal opposition to Poland. [
was assured that it was the first time
all the Russian political elements had
| been united on a common ground of
| thought and feeling. There is wide
, spread hatred of Poland. but a general
feeling that the present war should
end al Poland's frontiers.
| L. 5. Gives No Aid.
"A great number of Polish prisoners
who had been held in Siberia started
! homeward. only to be held up again at
/, Moscow and forced to work during the
| continuance of the war. We talked
/ with number of Americans in Moscow
| who have been trying for months to get
the American government. Among them
are Harold Carlson of Chicago and his
| wife and child. They have lost their
money and their property. We arranged
| with our committee to extend help to
Il them.
/ while We did not talk directly with
! Emma Goldman and the others deported
| from the United States, We heard that
| they were bitterly lamenting their fate.
Owing to the nature of the permission
| granted to us to go into Russia. / can
not discuss political or economic condi-
| lions there"
4 In signing the agreements relative to
carrying on the relief work the officers
| of the soviet government insisted on the
insertion of one clause setting forth the
needs of railway cars and other supplies
from America. in view of the fact that
the relief work would add further bur
den TO Russia's already overtax ed trans
portation system Judge Fisher will
leave today for Copenhagen.