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No. 19. Vienna, May 10, 1901. Vol. V.

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The Zionist Organisation.

Since the last Congress, work has been going forward in most countries upon the building up of the organisation. We have already emphasised in this place that Zionism has still to perfect itself in the organisational respect; that to the (shekel) organisation created by the Congress there must in particular be joined a well-jointed articulation by national federations. Gratifyingly, the recent period has brought us from the national federations in Austria, Russia, France and Germany reports of successful organisational labours. The outward development of Zionism which has thereby been brought about will, it is to be hoped, redound also to the benefit of its inward development.

To the national organisations of the Russian Zionists, the "American Zionist Federation", the "English Zionist Federation" and the "Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland", which have already existed for years past, there have of late been added, among others, the "Federation of the Zionist Societies of France" and the Austrian-Zionist organisation. The reports which we bring in another place upon the Berlin Delegates' Conference and the conference of the St. Petersburg Rayon show clearly that these national federations are working zealously at the building up and the strengthening of their organisation.

In Austria, where the centralisation was carried through only at the Austrian Zionist Convention, men are just now engaged with great diligence in realising the statute, which has been worked out down to the smallest detail. It is in particular a question of accomplishing the extraordinarily difficult gathering together and affiliation of the Galician Zionists. The Austrian National Committee "Verband Zion" will, in the very near future and in community with the leading Zionists of Galicia, set this organisational labour on foot, and to that end convoke a "Provincial Conference of the Zionist Societies of Galicia". Should this conference bring the desired success — which is probable — then the Austrian organisation will constitute the strongest next to the Russian.

Of importance and of great interest will also be the third party conference of the Austrian Jewish commercial employees and workers, which will take place on the 26th and 27th of May in Prague. The Zionist-economic organisation of the commercial employees (the first of its kind in Zionism), which was founded in the year 1897 upon the most modest scale, has in the last years, thanks to a purposeful and energetic direction, greatly extended itself and has perfected itself especially in the programmatic respect. The union has also created a central organ of its own, the very well conducted "Jüdische Volksstimme" in Bruenn. The party conferences, always strictly matter-of-fact and dignified, bring forth excellent papers and are not without influence upon the development of the theoretical part of Zionism. One may therefore look forward with great interest to this year's party conference of the Union of Commercial Employees also.

A new advance which we have occasion to observe in the formation of the organisations is this, that they work up certain matters independently and prepare for the Congress resolutions which set forth the wishes of the national federations. Should this method be further developed, it will essentially lighten the deliberations of the Congress and lead gradually to a systematic division of labour and to the desirable delimitation of competence between the Congress and the national federations.