It is high time for us to come together and discuss ways and means to
improve our conditions. Most of our people come to this country from
Turkey and the Orient not altogether prepared for the struggle for
existence that awaits them. A good many remain idle, or their work is
intermittent, and others, again, work in surroundings not conducive to
good health, nor is the remuneration sufficient to enable them to earn a
decent livelihood, resulting in time in poverty, and in some cases our
people are obliged to live in congested surroundings with disastrous
effect on their health, and some are becoming tubercular. A good many of
our children do not attend religious school and roam the streets without
having religious training or the ideals of our religion inculcated in
them, which may prove disastrous to Judaism and good citizenship. No
central bureau of information for our people is available when they are
in need of advice of any kind.
Therefore we appeal to you for the sake of yourself, your families and
your children, as well as for the sake of Israel and your country, to
attend a mass meeting which our federation has arranged to be held on
Sunday, March 16, at the University Settlement where leaders of our
community and other prominent men will discuss the issues affecting your
interests.
_Don’t fail to attend_ and urge your friends to do the same.