payment of the full amount of the annual contribution.
Third Resolution: Percentage of Relief Funds—Be it re- ‚solved that this convention recommend that in all cities and towns where conditions make it feasible that members of the Zionist Organization secure a percenta: : for the Zionist Emergency Fund out of the general relief fund which they are instrumental in collecting and over which they have control.
It was moved, seconded and carricd that the first resolution of the Emergency Fund Committee be adopted.
Mr. Louis Robison, of New York: May I ask for the need of the second resolution of the Emergency Fund Committee?
Mr. Cowen: It has been found in connection with the relief work that people will buy certificates. The Central Relief Committee issues receipts from $5 to $100. They find it helpful in the collection of funds.
Mr. Fromenson, of Philadelphia: I hope that that resolution will not be carried. Zionists will be content with the ordinary receipt. We do not need certificates to hang on our walls.
Mr. Geist, of Brooklyn: Every person gets a small receipt for his money. Certificates will be an expense only and no income.
Mr. Bril, of New York: At the meeting of the Emer- ‚gency Fund I proposed this resolution. We found in connection with relief work that people will buy certificates. It is not merely intended for organized Zionists. We can go to any person, asking him to pledge and assuring him that he will receive a certificate at the end of the year and that he will have on the certificate the proper signatures, a photograph of Herzl and also of a colony in Palestine. The Cen- :tral Relief Committee by means of certificates raised one- .quarter of a million dollars.
The resolution to issue certificates was carried by a vote of 103 in favor and 93 against it.
A motion was made, seconded and carried to table resolution 3 until the report of the General Relief Committee was rendered.
Mr. Davis of Pittsburgh presented the following resolutions for the committee on Fraternal Orders:
Report of Committee on Fraternal Orders.
The Committee respectfully reports:
(1) That the Federation Executive continue its work among major officers of the Jewish Fraternal Orders of america and that a comm.ttee appoınted by the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Zionists appear before them to interest them in Zionism; or that some other means as to the Executive Committee shall seem wise, shall be adopted to that end.
(2) Every regional unit in Zionism be directed, under the supervision of the Executive Committee to make a survey of local fraternal orders, and to supply them with Zionistic speakers and literature.
(3) That the Executive Committee be directed to open a separate department on Fraternal Orders and to report monthly on its work.
(4) That special efforts be made to interest fraternal orders at their general conventions.
Mr. Abram Goldberg, of New York: How to do all this is a detail. What we want is merely to have a committee ‚on Fraternal Orders to attend to this work and to do everything possible to further it.
The Chairman: We are on friendly terms with the Brith Sholom and the I. ©. B. A. We have been able to get resolutions passed by them, making appropriations to the Emergency Fund. What we want is to establish the same friendly relationship with other orders.
Mr. Fromenson, of Philadelphia: I move that this resolution be tabled.
The motion was not carried.
Mr. Rosen, of Jersey City: My idea is to communicate with the people themselves all the time and not with the heads. We are not a political party. Our work should be conducted on a democratic basis.
Mr. Rothenberg, of New York: Instead of this motion, the following resolution should be put in its place: "This convention recommends to the executive committee that it
continue to adopt ways and means to enlist the Fraternal Orders in the Zionist Movement."
Mr. Davis, of Pittsburgh: This convention should deliberately go on record as laying down a hard and fast set of rules for the guidance of the work. One general outline should be laid out. Now in bringing these four or five resolutions before the house, I ask you to listen to the entire report before you bring in any additional amendments.
All these resolutions relate to the continuance of the work of the Federation along previous lines.
The Chairman: There are any number of you who are officers of various lodges. It is of the utmost importance that every member of the Zionist organization use his influence to get the lodge interested in Zionism. I believe a substitute resolution would be in order from the floor.
Mr. Neuman, of Brooklyn: I move that it is the sense of this convention that every organized Zionist use his influence to further the aims of Zionism in his lodge.
The substitute motion was unanimously adopted.
General Resolutions.
Mr. Brodie of Baltimore presented the following resolutions on behalf of the General Resolutions Committee:
ı—Resolved that this convention express its sincere thanks to Mr. I. H. Rubin, secretary of the National Fund Bureau, for his devotion and effectiveness in promoting the interests of the National Fund.
2—Resolved that the lecturers, speakers, propagandists of the Federation of American Zionists and its constituent organizations be instructed to organize and get into touch with Young Judaea Groups in the centers that they visit.
3—Resolved that this convention recommend to the Congress Organization Committee the publication of all the correspondence which passed between the Congress Organization Committee and other organizations concerning the Congress question.
4 —The Federation of American Zionists in convention assembled on July 4th, 1916, hereby publicly records its appreciation and gratitude to William C. Hornblower, Director of Refugees and Encampments in Alexandria, Egypt, for the devoted and effective services which he rendered to Palestinian Jewish refugees.
5—Resolved that the Zionists of the United States in convention assembled send greetings to the great national poet of the Jewish people, Chayim Nachman Bialik, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his literary production and further to give expression to their appreciation and profound affection for the services rendered by him to our sacred cause in giving noble expression to our national ideals and aspirations.
6—Resolved that the 19th annual convention of the F. A. Z. express its thanks to the Philadelphia Jewish Community (Kehillah) for the official welcome tendered to the committee.
7z—Resolved that the ıgth annual convention of the F. A. Z. express to the Convention Arrangement Committee of Philadelphia its appreciation of the loyal and earnest services rendered by them in connection with the arrangements for the convention.
Resolution I was unanimously adopted.
Resolution 2 was adopted.
Resolution 3 was adopted, after a lengthy discussion.
Miss Szold of New York (in regard to resolution 4) recommended that letters of appreciation be also sent to other men who had done noble work in Palestine. Miss Szold was asked to take this matter up with Mr. Brodie. Resolution 4 was adopted.
The convention then adjourned, to meet again on Wednesday morning in the Hotel Walton.
WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION
The session opened at 9:45 in the Hotel Walton, Louis Lipsky presiding.
A telegram of greetings from the Zionist Council of Winnepeg, signed, N. J. Finkelstein, was read.