The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-27
jews PROGRAM
SSOCIALISTIC
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF
LAND AND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
ALL ADVOCATED FOR PALES-
TINE.

| London, June 2S.-Public ownership
of land, a cooperative commonwealth.
and equal rights for all, were advo-
Gated here today as the three leading
principles in the social program Amer
| lean Zionists desire Incorporated in
| tie project for a Jewish HON Gland n
lI'alestine, by Jacob de Haas, executive
secretary of the Zionist Organization cf
America.
| Mr.. DeHaas arrived in Londc1 today
with United States Supreme Courss JUS
lticc Louis D. Brandeis. honora-y presi-
dent of the Zionist Organization OF
America; Judge Julian w. Mack, presi-
dent: Nathan Straus. Mrs. Mary Fels,
Professor Felix Frankfurter. Captain
Abraham Tulin. David Rosenbloom and
Louis Lipsky, organization secretary.
These are the advance guard of the 80
delegates of American Zionists to the
World Zionist Conference, converting in
London Julr 4.
American Zionists will make unit
ed effort to have the Pittsburgh pro-
gram, which they adopted in 1918 as
i the guiding social principles for the
Jewish Homeland, approved by the
World Conference, in the program 1t
will formulate for the policy TO be car
ried out in Palestine. Mr.. deHaas in
the statement he gave out on the eve
of what is considered the most signif-
Iicant Jewish world conference ever
held. stressed the progressive tenets
of the Pittsburgh program, declaring:
1The Zionists are not going TO be
satisfied with a Palestine or land OF
Israel, which will be mere duplicate
of the numerous small states of Europe
or South America. They believe that
the 1000 years of suffering and mar
|tyrdom of the wandering Jew has
given to our race a wealth of expert
ence which, added to the ancient heri-
tage of the Jew, can be made frultfui
in the creation of a model settlement
lin the land of our forefathers.
"The Pittsburgh platform may be
summarized as follows: (D Public
Ownership of Land; (2), the Coopera-
tive Commonwealth; (3) Equal Rights.
The frat is expressed in the phrase
that the land of Palestine shall be
owned or controlled for the benefit of
the people of Palestine as while.
The Zionists of America have resolved
that the benefits which come through
increasing land values will not go into
the pockets of land spectators, but
will always remain community values
which will go into the public treasury.
1.-THE second principle indicates that
the Zionists of America are resolved
to encourage cooperative enterprise to
the largest extent possible, so that a
cooperative commonwealth may be
gradually evolved, without however.
crushing individual initiative. There
is no simple formula by which the
comparative commonwealth can be
achieved--it must be a development
through struggle and experimentation.
In any event, we have set the goal
THE third principle is one with
which all Americans are familiar-at
least in theory, though we fall short
in actual practice. Whereas, we con-
fine our program of equal rights to
the narrow field of politics. the Zion
lists of America would apply it to all Of
Palestinian life--to politics and eco
Monies, to law and industry to man
and woman, to every sect and every
creed"