The Chairman: The committees appointed are to meet with their chairmen immediately after this session to consider such resolutions as they think fit and proper to bring in. All resolutions should be submitted at once to Mr. Israel Brodie of Baltimore who will see to the proper handling of resolutions. The chairmen of committees are requested to report to the committee on rules how much time they will ask from this convention, for discussion, etc., and when they want their resolutions discussed.
The chairman introduced representatives of the Canadian Federation: Mr. M. Marcus, Vice-President, and Mr. Stone, of Toronto.
The chairman called upon Mr. Max Shulman of Chicago to report for the Knights of Zion.
KNIGHTS OF ZION
Mr. Max Shulman, of Chicago: I have before me a short report of the activities of the Knights of Zion, the Western Federation. I am not going to read it. I just want to give you a few facts and figures so that you may have a general idea of the activities in the West. Some think that the K. of Z. is a Fraternal Organization. This is not so. We are an organization working on the same basis and along the same lines as the F. A. Z. except that we confine our activities to the ten Middle Western States and are subjected to and are working under the jurisdiction of the F. A. Z. and in harmony with the F. A. Z. It may be of interest for the delegates to know that at the last convention in Boston the K. of Z. reported 47 societies with a total membership of 2,250, while to-day we report 67 societies and have paid out per capita tax to the Federation for 3,325. Since the Boston Convention, we have collected and turned over to the Emergency Fund $24,249.69 and since the Emergency Fund has been organized the K. of Z. has contributed the total sum of $40,516.72. In the last six months we have made a special effort to raise money for the Emergency Fund and have turned in from January ıst, to June ı5th, $15,194.98 and I want to add that before the Convention is over, from the campaign that has been inaugurated within the territory of the K. of Z., we expect to have a total of $20,000. The K. of Z. has been interested in organizing State Leagues. We have experimented in the State of Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been organized into a State League and at the last semi-annual conference much progress was shown. Eighteen societies have been organized there, and similar State Leagues will be organized in the other states within the territory of the K. of Z. I want to emphasize that where there are large Jewish communities State Leagues should be organized and all State Leagues should be united under one central executive. There should be a division of responsibility, but unity of action. We want co-operation but also co-ordination. An effort has been made to organize the inter-high school societies, and in a short time we expect to have the Inter High School Zionist League perfected. An effort has also been made to organize the Jewish students attending the respective colleges that are not affiliated with the Menorah societies, particularly students attending law schools have been organized into Zionist societies. In the course of time all these organizations will be co-ordinated under the supervision of proper authorities. Since the last Convention, a Zionist Bureau has been opened in Chicago which has done excellent work, especially in helping along the work of individual societies. The Bureau is doing all it possibly can in order to help exsiting societies to further their interests and to have their work done in the proper manner. The K. of Z., as at the last convention, pledges its co-operation to the P. C_ and to the F. A. Z. in all its further undertakings.