The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-02

Jewish religious and fraternal groups banded in an organization known as The American Jewish Conference.
 This conference was first con- vened in New York in August, 1943, for the express purpose of uniting all Jewish elements in the United States, presenting united front with single spokesman to stop pickering and working at cross pur- poses. The conference held a second plenary session in Pittsburgh last December. Represented in this con- ference are all Jewish religious bodies reformed orthodox and conservative churches. All Zionist organiza tions: The Central Confer ence of American Rabbis, the Amer ican Jewish Congress, Jewish War Veterans, Bnai B'rith, HadasSah and all the other national cultural, religious and educational organiza- tionS
 REPRESENTS U. s. JEWRY
 This American Jewish Conference therefore speaks in the name of a vast majority of American Jews. The conference representa- tiveS, headed by Dr. Henry Monsky, who is one of the A official consultants to the American delegation in the United Nations Conference, have a very definite program which they have been promoting at San Fran cisco.
 It favors an International Bill of Rights in the Charter to give assur- ance that Jewish people may have peace and security in whatever country they reside. In addition it supports legal and orderly recon- stitution of Palestine in a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth as originally established in the League of Nations British mandate for Palestine. The American Jewish Conference has been emphatic and aggressive in plugging this program with every delegate from every one of the 49 United Nations. But the American Jewish Conference is also well disciplined, and it has actually persuaded representatives of many of its member organizations to stay home and keep quiet so as not to add to the confusion in San Fran cisco.
 But handful of disunited organ izationS don't like the conference program or it's methods and that's where the feuding begins.
 ELEMENTS OPPOSING
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 Organizationally this opposition is said to be composed of these prin- cipal elements:
 The American Jewish Committee, headed by Joseph M. Proskauer of New York, who is also a consultant at San Francisco. The committee is small - 393 corporate members - but powerful. It works with the Jewish Conference on everything except the establishment of a pure ly Jewish commonwealth in Pales- tine at this time.
 Agudas Israel, a religious group of less than 3O,O00 members.
 The Jewish Labor Committee of New York. The right-wing David Dubinsky branch of the Garment Workers Union.
 The new Zionist organization, small direct-action group which agitates for restoration of Trans Jordania to Palestine.
 Finally, the organization which, after four changes of name, is now known as the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation. It supports the self-Styled Hebrew Embassy in Washington and represents a hand ful of young Jews born in Palestine who came to the United States in 1941 and have been operating high, wide and handsome ever since under the chairmanship of one Peter H. Bergson.
 They are in San Francisco oper- ating on the same scale, passing out statements by the sheaf, holding press conferences, doing their peo- pie, their cause and their religion lot of no good.