The Denver Jewish news., 1924-09-11
Serious Plight of
Poor Emigrants
Hack 10 Land Movement Growing,
Needs Assistance.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

ish omigrants, men, women and child
ren, are stranded in the various ports
and cities of Europe, dependent en-
tirely for their subsistence on the help
which they may receive from their rel
atives in the United States, according
to Mr.. b. c. Vladeck, manager of the
Jewish Daily Forward" and member
of the HAS delegation, who has just
returned from Europe, in an exclusive
interview with the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
Six thousand of this number pos
sess Russian passports and have al
ready secured American visas. They
are located in the ports of Southamp-
ton, Marseilles, Havre, Cherbourg,
Bremen, Hamburg, Libau, Riga and
Constantinople, and in the cities of
Warsaw, Kishineff, Calatz and Buch-
Arrest.
The investigation made by the HAS
delegation, Mr.. Vladeck stated, reveal
ed a most pitiful situation among the
refugees stranded in Roumania, Lat
via and Poland. They lack food and
shelter and are dressed in rags. Their
entire existence depends on the help of
their relatives in America, but they
receive very little from either their
relatives or the relief organizations.
A large number of the emigrants are
housed by the steamship companies
which undertook to bring them to the
United States.
The governments of the various
countries where the Jewish emigrants
are stranded have given assurances
that they will not deport them, pend
ing their departure for the United
States, Argentina and Canada, steps
for which are being taken. -.
Particular consideration has been
shown by the government of France,
which has agreed to allow the skilled
workers among the refugees to be alb
sorbed into the industrial fabric of the
country. Special efforts are being
made to relieve the situation in Rou-
mania by despatching groups of refu-
gees to Argentina and Canada.
Mr.. Vladeck observed the interest
ing fact that out of 800 refugees
stranded in Southampton, faced with
the alternatives of waiting indefinitely
for permission to go to the United
States, or proceeding Immediately to
Palestine, only fourteen chose the lat
| ter.
Mr.. Nladeck, who spent short time
in Poland, reports that there is Sc
we're economic depression in that coun-
try due in part to the introduction of
the new money system which sup
planted the valueless paper currency
for high currency on gold basis.
In consequence, the country is expert
encing crisis due to lack of cash
and crelit.
The Jews have been most affected
by this condition. In the cities of
Bialystok and Lodez, the centers of
the textile industry, things are at an
utter standstill and the Jewish work
ers are actually starving. He urged
that American relatives go to the help
of their relatives in thes regions.
As result Of this critical situation,
Mr.. Vladeck reports that there is
strong inclination towards the settle
ment of the Jews on the land. A seri-
Gus hindrance to this movement is the
lack of assistance that the Jews who
desire to settle on the land are receiv-
ing in the purchase of machinery, and
the securing of advice on proper culti-
walton. A visit to the Ort office in
Kishineff by Mr.. Vladeck revealed the
fact that the society has no money
with which to remedy these difficulties.
A condition of the granting of land
to the Jews in Bessarabia by the Rou
nanian government is that they culti-
vate it within a period of two years.
Due to the lack of machinery, it is
feared that many of the Jewish fami-
lies will lose their allotments of land.
Tobacco cultivation and vineyards
are the principal forms of agriculture
among the new farmers in South Rus
sia and Roumania.
Talk in connection with Jewish
Republic in South Russia, upon close
examination and interviews with Jew
ish leaders, by Mr.. Yladeck, dwin-
died down to nothing more than the
settlement of several thousand Jewish
families on the soil