Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-23
100000 JEWS
ORGANIZING To
| LEAVE UKRAINE
Expect to Go to Palestine,
Quitting the Country
Where They Now Reside
On Account of Conditions.
Especial Correspondence to The Journai)


Especial Correspondence TO The Journal)
New York. Feb. 22.-Oyer l.
100000 Jews in the Ukraine are
organized to leave for Palestine as
soon as that country is opened to
receive world mass-migration on a
large scale
Meier Grossman. member of the
Jewish national assembly Of the
Ukraine and head of the London
Jewish correspondence bureau,
made this statement in an inter-
view given out by the Zionist or
ganization of America, with whom
he is now comforting over the
problems incident to the virtual
population of Jewish Ukraine in
the intense desire of over half the
Jews there to emigrate to the Holy
Land.
1.-The majority Of the Ukraine
Jews are ready at any moment to
emigrate at the greatest of sacri-
fees, from that country, which to
them is a nightmare of bloody
pogroms, and settle in Palestine"
be declared. THE intense desire
To live in Palestine has been spread
among those Jews who never had
any relations with Zionism or with
Jewish politics.
"In hundreds of cities and vii
lagos, groups Of Jews stand ready
to leave behind them all their
property and start for Palestine as
coon as through the establishment
OF the British mandate, the coun-
try will be opened to extensive i'm
migration.
Delegates from all the Jewish
settlements in the Ukraine are pro-
ceeding daily to Odessa to investi-
gate the possibilities of starting at
once for the Holy Land. Odessa,
Sebastopol and other seaports are
crowded with these advance
guards, who spend their last cent
in order to try to find a way to get
to Palestine at once"
Mr.. Grossman reiterated the re-
ports that the local Zionist organ
izations in Odessa, Constantinople
and other seaports are unable in
many cases to cope with the in
tense desire of these people to start
out for Palestine, regardless of
whether they are in position to
leave or whether the country is
ready to receive them. He con-
firmed the report of Isaac Rosoff. |
president of the Zionist organiza-
ton of Russia that hundreds of
young men are breaking through
the restrictions Of the Zionist or
ganization and setting out for Pal |
estine from Black sea and Medi- |
terranean ports in fishing smacks. |
Through the Palestine restora-
lion fund campaign, the Zionist or
ganization of America is raising
SO, 100000 throughout the United
States this year, in order to STARE
the vast reconstruction program,
which must be completed before
Palestine will be in position to
absorb the millions of Jews
throughout the world. awaiting the
moment when they can emigrate
there.
In connection with this restora-
ton work Mr.. Grossman pointed
out that many of the 10000 600 |
Tkrainian Jews are already organ
lied into various industrial and
agricultural cooperative groups, |
planning to systematic the mass |
migration and prevent a mad, un-
scientific rush to Palestine as soon
as the gates are opened.
There are approximately 100,- |
GOO farmers waiting to leave he
continued, who will be a ire
mendous asset to the future agri- |
cultural development of Palestine. |
They are busy organizing their CO.
operative units, at the same time |
that they are teaching thousands |
of Jews the principles of farming, |
so that they will be economic as |
sets in the agricultural life of the |
new Jewish national homeland.
THE hundreds of young men |
who have crossed the Black sea in |
small fishing boats and the hun
dreds of thousands of families who |
]Iave given up their last cent in |
order to settle in Palestine, are
the best proofs that the one and |
only way in which we can help the
Jews, of whom over |
25, 900 have been killed in mas
sacres, is by preparing a home in
The Holy Land for the 1900, 900 |