Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-10-14
London Topics
The Jewish Shelter in London
BY D. MAGARSHAK

by Mr.. Herman Landau, himself an
immigrant from Poland. 1t is fact
worth remembering. A native of
Kalish, Mr.. Landau came over to
London, made his fortune, and turned
his whole mind to the amelioration of
the condition of his less fortunate
brethren - Jewish emigrants passing
through London to the New World or
coming to settle here. All through his
life Mr.. Landau supported the Shell
ter, and how much his death affected
the well-being of this house of charity
charity in the noblest meaning of
the word i is shown by the fact that
only few years after his death there
is a deficit of 1000 pounds, deficit,
too, that does not appear to be dimin-
ishing.
During the twenty-fifth annual
meeting - there were no meetings
held during the war Mr.. Otto NJ.
Schif, the president, stressed the fact
that in spite of the almost complete
restriction of immigration to Eng
land and America 1,16O emigrants had
stayed at the Shelter during the past
year, Of whom three were non-Jews.
One thousand three hundred and
eighty-four of the emigrants were un-
der forty years of age. Eighty-eight
thousand meals and 1000 nights
lodgings had been given at the Shelter.
In addition to this, there is an ad-
visory bureau on travelling which
deals week after week with the most
complicated cases of travelling.
But the Shelter authorities do not
| limit their activities to transmigrants
only. Cases of infringement of the
Aliens Acts are dealt with by them
and it is due entirely to their atten-
tion that so few prosecutions are TAX.
ing place.
Protects Eastleigh Emigrants
But the most striking example of
the beneficent activities of the Shelter
is the long awaited release from con-
finement of the Eastleigh emigrants
who were stranded in 1928 - the first
victims of the new American policy
of immigration. Their number origin.
ally was about one thousand. The
great majority of them, however, have
since been able to proceed to the
United States; nineteen have gone tc
the Argentine, twenty-seven to Pales.
tine, and twenty-four at their own re
quest have gone back to Russia. There
remained balance of about two hun
dred people at Eastleigh, and the
shipping companies, who had KEEP
these people, with the aid of the Shell
ter, now approached the Home Office
asking that they should be released
from their bonds, as finances did moi
allow them to continue maintaining
the emigrants. The task of the ship
ping companies was not an enviablt
one. They, too, were the victims oi
Americas policy of immigration re-
striction. A year ago the Eastleigf
camp gave them great trouble and un
wished for publicity, when all the
emigrants declared hunger strike il
protest against the bad food Now
they had 200 emigrants left on theil
hands and there was no way of getting
rid of them. The Shelter had hat
long conferences at the Home Office
and with the Home Secretary, who
said that Eastleigh would be wound uE
provided the Jewish community un
dertook to place and distribute these
people over the country without dis.
placing British labor.
Released to England
To be allowed to settle in Englad
even as undesirable aliens is better
than having to live as pariahs in a
concentration camp and eat the bread
of idelness thrown to you grudgingly
But the Eastleigh emigrants have not
been released yet; jobs have to be
found for them first, and jobs which
an English worker is not capable OF
undertaking. A painful duty devolves
on Anglo-Jewry. Will it perform it?
Or will it simply dump these unfor-
tttr t,,tn tbn 81, pf hA ~
End and allow their already existing
degradation sink still lower. One won
ders go. e.
International and National
But the most important part of Mr..
Lloyd Georges speech was that in
which he put it down that at was a
great mistake to imagine that because
n race is an international one. it can