Official Information
All notices and information published in the MACCABÆAN as "Official Information," shall be regarded as binding and obligatory upon the affiliated organizations, and shall stand instead of special circulars; but this resolution shall not prevent the Executive Council issuing such circulars as it may deem necessary from time to time—Resolution adopted at the Pittsburg Convention.
Secretaries are requested to read this page to the members of their Society at the meeting following the receipt of the copy of the MACCABÆAN.
A meeting of the executive council of the Federation of American Zionists, at the office of the Federation, 320 Broadway, was held on Thursday, July 2.
There were present: S. H. Borofsky, A. L. Schiller, of Scranton; A. H. Fromenson, S. Abel, E. W. Lewin-Epstein, H. I. Barnett, Rev. H. Masliansky, Rev. A. M. Radin, Louis Lipsky, A. Radin and the secretary.
In the absence of the president and the vice-president, Mr. Borofsky was appointed to the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted.
Resolved, That until further notice the meetings be held in New York.
The following chairmen of committees were appointed: Propaganda Committee Fund, Rev. Dr. A. M. Radin; Finance Committee, A. Radin; Organization Committee, L. Lipsky; Publication Committee, G. H. Mayer; Education Committee, A. H. Fromenson; Jewish Colonial Trust Committee, E. W. Lewin-Epstein; National Fund Committee, Dr. B. L. Gordon; Shekel Committee, H. I. Barnett; Yiddish Publication Committee, S. Abel; Musical Committee, Dr. B. L. Singer.
Question proposed and carried unanimously that the chairman of each committee shall, at the next meeting of the executive council, submit a list of his appointees, as well as a programme of the work of his committee.
Resolved, That the membership of the Finance and Publication Committees be confined to members of the council.
Question proposed and carried unanimously that the executive council instruct the representatives to the Basle Congress to act upon the resolution passed at the Pittsburg con-
vention maintaining the integrity of the Federation as a whole, and to submit such amendment to the general constitution as may be necessary to the purpose of making definite that there shall be only one Federation in the United States of America.
Further, that, whilst the executive council is willing to approve the formation in the City of New York of a Mizrachi on lines similar to that of the Russian Mizrachi, i. e., whereby it is understood that such organization shall accept the control of the Federation as a whole and for all general purposes be part of said Federation; the executive council takes exception and will use every power granted it by the constitution to oppose the formation of an independent federation, the executive council being of the opinion that the formation of any independent body would be of serious injury to the cause, and undermine such influence as the movement has already won in this country.