At 3:00 this afternoon, in Masonic Temple, the 27th annual convention of the large worker’s organization “Arbiter Ring” will open. More than  200 delegates from all states in the nation will be attending.

The convention will hear reports regarding the events in Arbiter Ring for the last two years, a time when a difficult struggle with left-leaning members obstructed the work of Arbiter Ring and prevented it from from achieving all it might have accomplished.

Because the convention is small and its delegates elected from state conferences and not directly by branches, the ‘left’ did not elect any delegates. This assures that the convention will be calm and productive.

The Arbiter Ring is one of the largest Jewish organizations in America. Its membership is 86,000. It has a network of schools throughout the nation, and its own sanatorium for sick members in Liberty New York.

The Arbiter Ring supports its members in every case of need. It also has done much to help the war victims, for relief and HIAS, always responding with great sums of money and with great energy.

The convention will begin with a general session, which will be opened by M. Weinstein, on behalf of the Cleveland Arrangements Committee. The speakers will be: Abraham Kahan, George Jakob Penkin, H. Ehrlich director of the “Bund”, Naftali Feinerman, national chairman of Arbiter Ring, and Y. Baskin national secretary. The local speakers will be Councilman Peter White and Max Hayes.

The convention will meet for a full week in Hotel Statler. The first meeting will be held Monday morning  at 9:30. 

Among the important questions the convention will deal with will be the Arbiter Ring schools. The recent disagreement with leftwingers regarding our schools has weakened the schools. In recent months there has been some progress. The convention will consider this work, which has been affected by this tempest.