The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1922-11-01
WORKMEN'S CIRCLE TO CONTRI-
Butte 100000 TO HEBREW
SHELTERING AND IMMIGRANT
AID SOCIETY OF AMERICA.

Il
We are so accustomed these days TO
associate labor items with strikes that
1t is n cheerful contrast to call atten.
tiOn TO the action of the Jewish Work
mems Circle mt n special meeting of
the New York branches held last night
in their conference room Mt 173 East
Broadway. At this meeting. attended
by over three hundred representatives
of forty-fivc different trades, 1t was
voted that each of the $1,000 members
of the organization be taxed Il dollar
for the benefit of the Hebrew Shelter
ing and Immigrant Aid Society.
The latter Society has just com
mcnced drive for a half million dol
lars to- carry on its work among the
immigrants ON both sides of the At
Iantic It's announcement thut unless
this sum was raised 1t would b. neces-
sary to abandon. the Immigrant to his
fate has aroused storm of .ro'cst
and the action OF the 'Workmcn's Cir
Gle last night was typical of H,c sen,
timent universally existing noiis
American Jews The motion was pass
ed by reclamation in u yeritable s'hirl-
wind OF enthusiasm.
This donation of over eighty thou
sand dollars in quarterly installments
il all the more noteworthy in that it
comes from the pockets of the poor,
men who are subsisting on wages as
low as those which caused the rail
road strike. The appeal Of the He
brew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society, or Has as it Is aTecsion-
ately termed, was particularly cifcc-
tive because almost everyone OF the
delegates who were present was him
self an immigrant and found ii easy to
corroborate out Of his own experience
the Indispensable nature of the work
which the Society is performing. Sew
eral of the speakers. among them John
l.. Bernstein. the president of the So
ciety. related moving stories Of The
hclplessness of the ordinary Immigrant
and the blessing conferred by this or
ganized effort of American Jewry to
humanize the course of Immigration.
The point was made that This is net
u charity where the rich c0ndesccnd TO
the craven poor, but II systeIii Which
enables men and women TO help them
selves In the last two years over
thirteen million dollars has been
transmitted to wives, children. parents,
brothers and sisters by relatives On
this side OF the water through the So
ciety and not one penny of profit has
been cxacted to pay for tile enormous
expense involved in carrying through
these thousands of transactions.
Illus" does not endeavor to extend
immigration beyond the three percent
quota. 1t merely endeavors to make
immigration efficient and supportable.
BY means of its fourteen offices in diff
ferent parts of Europe, it has relieved
the American Consular Service of vast
quantities of labor and its practice of
housing and feeding the immigrants
who have passed through Ellis Island
has been of distinct service to both
the Immigration authorities and the
City of New York. In point of fact the
Society is great organ of Americana
zntion, IA function which it initiates
in the villages of Europe and carries
on until the Immigrant has found his
place in the great network of -Amcri-
can life.
The action of the New York branch
es of the Workmen's Circle which has
been in existence for twelty-three
years. will be finally ratified tomorrow
by a meeting of the National Exocu-
tive Board, representing 700 branches
and a nationwide institution.
1t is paradox. but since John
Barleycorn turned up his toes it is