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D r . B o r i s D.TBogen
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I.y dear Dr.3o£cn:
I ara glad to-inform you fch&t our work i s yi\cgrehsint7_satisfactorily. ::Qur
offipo i s functioning, said we es?- a l r e # y have a staff of- ton, -and avca*y-Onts _oi\ us i s kept Busy.- I.y oik'ice = hears are i'ro'm 6 ra.m. f'ho .staff iii. eludes; a r.ian,_ who i s in charge of the atcroiiquso, and_helxjer^, watcjiman,
Polish correspondent, h i s s Lagan and- general office workers. I am oontomplatinc of engaging an o:.port book-koopor, :-whcm I intend to use for
c o n t r o l l i n g tno books of the various-=institutious, which ar-ifsuusiilizcci
ay vis both in the c i t y of I i n sic end tho d i s t r i c t . Suoika person I should
l i k e to use r only for the con\.rol_or books.- In addition X think, i t w i l l
be necessary to have 2 man, whom" I sin cavri send into-tho d i s t r i c t to got
in close touch with the .local -situation =of the various c i t i e s and towns.
For the present pui- personal-service department is the b u s i e s t . There are "
many people, vvn.q iiuvenot yet been connected with t h e i r r e l a t i v e s "libra d,
and I hop;© th.Lt v/o w i l l bo instrumental in doing t h i s at the oar l i e s
opportunity.
As I have v/rittc-n before, of the t o t a l 11Q5~ packages-received 81 boxes
were broken. Upon examination of tha contents of these boxes wes find t i c following a r t i c l e s missing:
Rico j
5 torn and p a r t l y l o s t 5 miss inf.: e n t i r e l y ' ^
"Beans:
1 torn; ana 3 mi's sine
-Cocoa.
5 empty cans (apparently s p i l l e d on the way)'
Oondosned luilk;
:
"Oil*
3 caisl empty and. 125 mi'sfingi-.
1 can empty and 28 missing.
I have bulkedj tho various materi; Is from the broken boxes and w i l l mpii
put up as many complete sots as p o s s i b l e . So far nobody has appiiM with
food d r a f t s of the J.'h.O. for these packages.
Remittances;
I havo already w r i t t e n to Goiter about talcing ' ver the remittances in our
office. I think that should be done, but I do not want to do so u n t i l I hear
from you.
Constructive Aid.
The quastion of construetivo aid here is very urgent, 'jjlio unemployment is
great, and i t seems to me that som"o'_direct steps w i l l have to ue tclean to
moot t h i s s i t u a t i o n . I would suggest the allotments of special sums for
the establishment of cooperative work-shops, also for cooperative "lo&n^f
s o c i e t i e s whore tho small merchants would secure money in order to s t a r t
t h e i r business again.
I am considering making a thorough survey of a l l l o c a l i n s t i t u t i o n s , which.
are being conducted through our funds, said hop>e that they v/ill bo improved
considerably i n the near future., f'he same investigation 1 hope to carry
through in a l l the i n s t i t u t i o n s in the d i s t r i c t .
'Again I want to mention tiiut i t would be advisable to -assign some special
sum for the cashing of chocks drawn on the l o c a l Polska Krajowa Kassa. ihese
chocks v.-0 can easily cash in after a period of 3 or 4- woeks in the meantime
the people would oe helped out considerably. In order to enable a l l of the
checks which people hold here on the Polska Krajowa Kassa to be paid out,
500,000 marks v/ill be s u f f i c i e n t , 'i'his sum can always be replenished by
tli© cashing in of tho checks a t trie bank, when t h e i r v e r i f i c a t i o n a r r i v e s ,
i . e . by the time we have paid out the 500,000 marks wo can cash in a suff i c i e n t amount of checks in order to continue further paying out now checks
presented age to u s .
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I have not y e t r e c e i v e d the shees from '..iinc, and am sending a mane down
t o g e t them as cany of the, school c h i l d r e n here have been l e f t w i t h o u t
shoes.
iiie A p r i l money lias not y e t a r r i v e d , and i r e a l l y do not know the reason
for i t . I have already p a i d out some money to the '..'orkingmen's Committee
from the sum which was t u r n e d over t o me by Hiss Luganowa, in r e t u r n for
an o r d e r , which I gave h e r on 7/arsaw. I a l s o want t o confirm the t e l e g ram, v a i c h I sent you y e s t e r d a y , to pay 20,000 marks t o Zr.Solomon fflomcsyn
which sum I am d e d u c t i n g from the A p r i l allotment t o the Acrkmen.
I e s t i m a t e t h a t my a d m i n i s t r a t i v e expenses f o r the bureau here w i l l be
from 35 t o 50,000 marks p e r month f o r the p r e s e n t , and hope t h a t t h i s
money w e i l l be forwarded to n e .
I want to mention h e r e t h a t Lr.Churgin has sjpoken to me about some money
wliich he has advanced t o Dr.Spivak, Bud which he has n o t y e t r e c e i v e d .
I hope t o r e c e i v e an answer t o ay e n q u i r i e s of the previous l e t t e r s which
I sent ycu.
A Committee from t h e refugees of Lreviarwors i n t o sea me w i t h reference
to seme subsidy, which you have promised to thorn f o r the r e - b u i l d i n g of
l i r e v i a r and which they were to secure from the V/ilno 3KGPC. Ar. Lackerman, t h e spokesman of the Committee informed me t h a t they have been in
"..ilno, and t h e HKOIO informed them t h a t they have n o t r e c e i v e d such money.
from ycu.
I have n e t y e t reserved, the automobile.
Ver;/ r e s p e c t f u l l y y o u r s ,