The Denver Jewish news., 1924-11-27
The lea and Jewish
immigration

to It's agreement concerning Jewish i'm.
migrationy asks The Jewish Daily
Forward in its editorial Of Monday,
the 9th. and reviews the short history
Of the immigration of Jewish refugees
into Canada in the following para,
graphs:
"rhc l. c. A. succeeded in securing
the consent Of the Canadian Govern
mcnt to admit n hundred Jewish immi-
grafton per week for one year This
meant that POO unfortunate Jewish
wanderers stranded In the various ports
Of Europe would be admitted into Can
ada. Suddenly a report appeared in
the newspapers that tile Canadian Gov
ernmcnt broke its agreement with the
ICA and that Jewish wanderers sent
by the 1CA to Canada will not he ad-
mitted. A few days later another re
port was published in the press that
the lCA was responsible for this breach
Of agreement. for II the ICA lived mp
to the terms of the agreement the 800
immigrants would have been in Canada
by this time.
THE ICA is responsible for this state
Of affairs. If il were not such bu-
rcaucratic organization which moves so
slowly, the 800 immigrants would, Of
course, have been in Canada by this
time. But the bureaucratic methods of
the ICA are so deeply rooted that it
took some time until that institution
was ready to do the work of carrying
out the terms of the agreement. he
cause of that a shorter term remained
for the transportation of immigrants
and not fully - weeks. 1t was, there
fore necessary to get the consent of
the Canadian Government not to in
terpret strictly that clause of the agree
mont stating that a hundred immi-
grants per week would bo permitted to
land 1t was necessary to get the per-
mission TO land 300 immigrants with
in the year regardless of the weekly
quota.
But In order to- accomplish this.
the assistance of influential Canadian
Jewish social workers was necessary.
The influential men did their duty, but
they rendered their assistance in an
unfavorable manner. They meant well,
but the results We're bad. A situation
was created Involving various outside
influences and interests. and the Cana
dian Government came out with the
statement that it does not want to con-
tinue the agreement.
In other words, the ICA really is
guilty, but 1t does not bear the guilt
alone. The Jewish social workers of
Canada share the responsibility for this
situation, and, of course, the Canadian
Government, which did not act proper
ly in breaking the agreement
But who ever the guilty parties may
be. the unfortunate Jewish wanderers
should not suffer We want to utilize
this opportunity to remind the public
again of the Emergency Fund for the
helpless Jewish wanderers and of the
duty to contribute to that fund as much
as possible"
After the publication of this edi-
tOrial and number of articles in "The
Freiheit," The Jewish Daily News"
and the Day" on the responsibility of
the ICA for the confusion in Canada,
the ICA came out with statement ex-
planning the reasons that actunted the
CANADIAN Government to terminate the
agreement This explanation did not
seem satisfactory to the Jewish press,
and Mr.. j. Fishman, managing editor
of the Jewish Morning Journal in
his daily column commented on it in
the following manner:
"The declaration Of the ICA. dis
claiming responsibility for the stoppage
of Jewish immigration into CANADA.
which was cabled by the Jewish Telc-
graphic Agency yesterday, shows that
the ICA is not informed regarding the
charges against it or its representa-,
tivcs
at stands to reason that II the only
cause Of terminating the agreement
were the fact that the ICA has liqul-
dated completely the problem Of the
refugees in ROumania. the Canadian
Government would have spoken clearly
and would not seek refuge behind the
odd explanation. task the ICA. 1t
lsrow's the reason Our correspondent
in Canada, Mr.. L. MeItzcr, reported
scandalous dealings in the immigration
certificates, In which an ICA man was
involved. To this accusation, the ICA
does not answer
I'VE are not in position TO say
whether the accusation is founded on
facts, and even If it were true. it is
still a question whether the ICA is