FOR GENERAL RELIEF
| Poland— | Roubles | |
| Warsaw | 350,000 | |
| Province Warsaw | 10,000 | |
| Lodz | 1,500 | |
| Province Lomsha | 12,000 | |
| Province Suvalki | 7,000 | |
| Province Liublin | 75,000 | |
| Province Radom | 45,000 | |
| Province Cholm | 4,400 | |
| Province Kielce | 40,000 | |
| ——— | 545,000 | |
| Southwestern Province— | ||
| (Border Places) | 14,000 | |
| Radzivilov | 14,000 | |
| Chtin | 5,000 | |
| Volotchisk | 5,000 | |
| Gorokov | 1,000 | |
| Novosselitsy | 500 | |
| Various small places | 5,000 | |
| ——— | 31,000 | |
| Northwestern Province— | ||
| Province Kovno | 55,000 | |
| Province Vilna | 30,000 | |
| Province Bialystock, Minsk, etc. | 10,000 | |
| ——— | 95,000 | |
| Galicia | 112,000 | |
| Assistance to Jews in Palestine and Syria (through representative in Alexandria) | 10,000 | |
| Assistance to Russian-Jewish Refugees from Abroad (when passing Petrograd) | 1,500 | |
| Assistance to Wounded and Recovered Soldiers returning to the Front | 15,000 | |
| Purchase of Matzoth for Soldiers at the Front (subsidy to the Rabbinical Committee) | 15,000 | |
| Subsidy to Various Educational Institutions (Yeshiboth, Jewish teachers, etc.) | 16,000 | |
| Organization of cheap credit to Jewish artisans, workmen and merchants (through Jewish Cooperative Credit Societies) | [57]22,000 | |
| Assistance to clerks of Jewish Cooperative Societies (affected by the war) | 1,000 | |
| Organization and support of sanitary and feeding expeditions (two expeditions) | 50,000 | |
| ——— | ||
| Total | 914,000 | |
| Expenditure of the Moscow, Odessa, Kiev Committees | 350,000 | |
| ————— | ||
| [58]1,204,000 | ||
According to approximate estimates within the next months the General Jewish Relief Committee, working conjointly with the Jewish Committees in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, will require the following sums to satisfy the most urgent needs of the organizations now in full operation and yet to be started:
| Poland and Northwestern Provinces— | Roubles | |||
| Warsaw | From | 150,000 | to | 200,000 |
| Province Warsaw | From | 15,000 | to | 20,000 |
| Province Liublin | From | 20,000 | to | 25,000 |
| Province Suvalki | From | 12,000 | to | 15,000 |
| Province Radom | From | 20,000 | to | 25,000 |
| Province Kielce | From | 20,000 | to | 25,000 |
| Province Kovno | From | 25,000 | to | 30,000 |
| Province Vilna | From | 10,000 | to | 15,000 |
| Province Grodno | From | 8,000 | to | 10,000 |
| Province Lomzha | From | 15,000 | to | 20,000 |
| Province Plotzk | From | 6,000 | to | 8,000 |
| Province Cholm | From | 10,000 | to | 12,000 |
| Southwestern Provinces— | ||||
| Province Volynia | From | 20,000 | to | 25,000 |
| Province Podolia | ... | ... | ||
| Province Bessarabia | From | 40,000 | to | 50,000 |
| Galicia— | ||||
| Outside war area | From | 10,000 | to | 15,000 |
| Restoration of trade and industry among war sufferers | From | 100,000 | to | 150,000 |
| Extraordinary expenditure | From | 10,000 | to | 15,000 |
| ——————————— | ||||
| Thus | From | 484,000 | to | 650,000 |
[Expressed in United States currency, the sum of $242,000 to $325,000 per month will be required, according to this early estimate, to satisfy the most urgent needs of the sufferers.]
As already pointed out, the sphere and extent of distress are ever increasing with the progress of the war. The Jewish relief organizations in Russia thus stand before the alarming problem: whence to obtain adequate funds to satisfy the ever growing demand. This problem becomes the more urgent as new forms of relief must be devised as the time goes on. It will not do merely to feed and shelter the stricken population. Many of the sufferers are able and willing to work, if they but had the possibility of doing so.
The attention of the Jewish public will therefore have to be concentrated on a new problem: to help the ruined artisans to rehabilitate themselves, to rebuild their shattered homes and to restore their ruined business by means of cheap credit provided for them. The solution of this problem will, however, require infinitely larger means, which Russian Jewry is unable to raise....
II.
SPEECH OF DEPUTY FRIEDMAN
IN THE DUMA
(August 2, 1915)