ISRAEL HISTADRUT GOES FORWARD! ,

r_l'he Bridge Between Newcomers and Productive
Citizenship Is HISTADRUT

The impact of new immigrants upon the life of Israel—

The impact of Israel upon the life of the new immigrants—

Israel's labor movement—which laid the foundation for national independ-
enc—;s today erecting the structure which will house the people of Israel, a
home based on labor, on cooperation, on social justice, on cultural advance.

These are. the interrelated problems whose solution will
determine the kind of Jewish State we shall ultimately have.

THE 1953 HISTAMT CAMPAIGN

is American Jewry's instrument for participation in the grand and challenging tasks of
Labor Israel. American dollars, freely given, will help Histadrut go forward—

• To TRAIN more skilled workers in industry and agriculture.
• To ESTABLISH cooperative enterprises for new immigrants.
• To BUILD homes and community institutions in new areas.

• To PROVIDE medical care for 900,000 men, women and children.

• To INTLGitATE old and new citizens, socially and culturally.

Two Years of Progress

One Million Lives

By MORDECAI NAMIR, General Secretary of Israel Histadrut

The past two years have been
years of trial and struggle and
great achievements. We have
traversed a great distance and
have withstood tests which not
only measured the strength of
Histadrut but struck at the
very core of its existence and
its future development.
MEMBERSHIP: Since the es-
tablishment of the State, His-
tadrut has grown unhaltingly at
a pace heretofore unknown. The
vast immigration doubled Is-
, rael's population and tripled
the ranks of Histadrut — from
175.000 members at the end of
1947 we have reached 503,000
in September 1952. Two-thirds
of our_ members have joined us
since the establishment of the
State; during the past two years
alone, 182,000 joined, that is,
more than the total member-
ship that we had when the
State was formed.
The general population of
Histadrut — adults, children,
those above working age and
other dependents — now num-
bers nearly 750,000 or half of
the Jewish population united
within one general labor fed-
eration. The economically active
workers after the rise of the
State have reached to 30 per
cent of the population or twice
the prom- rtion that belonged a
quarter a century ago. If we
take into account, and we must
take into account for the sake
of accuracy, the wives, chil-
dren and other dependents of
the breadwinners, the general
labor community amounts to
55-60 per cent of the Jewish
population. Thus, the "working
nation" - has a clear majority
and this has been achieved
during the four years of state-
hood.
WAGE EARNERS : It is esti-
mated that Israel today-,,has
400,000 wage earners, including
members and non-members of
Histadrut. I rely upon figures of
September 1952, which include
the defense forces. Of these
400,000 wage earners, 330,000 are
effiliated with our trade unions.
PRODUCTION COUNCILS
After interminable negotiations
with the Manufacturers Asso-
ciation we reached an agree-
ment that a Productivity Coun-
cil would be set up in each place
employing 50 workers or more.
The government helped us in
this effort. With its aid we dis-
patched delegations to various
countries to learn techniques
and production methods. So far
130 joint Production Councils
have been established covering
35,000 workers in industry,
transport and public bodies.
WORKING WOMEN: The
Moetzet Hapoalot numbers 180,-
000 members who are simul-
taneously members of Histadrut

—industrial workers, profession- all; shipping and fishing — 25
als, housewives and women in per cent; commerce — 20 per
the agricultural settlements. cent.
They have cared for 6,000 chil-
AGRICULTURE: 375 agricul-
dren in the maabarot.
tural settlements are affiliated
with Hevrat `Ovdim. These have
an overall population of 120,000,
including 72.000 workers who
have determined for themselves
a new way of life that has no
parallel elsewhere in the world.
INDUSTRY: There are 23,000
workers in 715 Histadrut Indus =
trial enterprises of various
types, in comparison with 8,000
workers when the state was es-
tablished. Their production in
1952 amounted to IL 48,000,000.
There are three groups of co-
vry--
operatives within the Histadrut
Mordecai Namir
sector; 1) Institutions headed
MAABAROT: Those who re- by Solel Boneh, 80 enterprises
member the first days of the with more than. 13.000 workers;
maabarot, the despair, the 2) 280 urban cooperatives with
strangeness, the inadaptability nearly 6,000 workers; 3) 255 in-
of the inhabitants, cannot deny dustrial enterprises in the agri-
the improvement that has taken cultural settlements, with 4,300
place with regard to work, to workers.
skills, to health institutions,
VOCATIONAL TRAINING: At
education, hygiene, in supplies, the beginning of the year there
and the social, organizational were 10,000 trainees, of whOm
and cultural progress. Neverthe- 6,500 attended the Amal schools
less, the bulk of the problem is and evening courses of Hanoar
still with us.
and 3,500 attended
Haoved;
THE LABOR. ECONOMY: Aft- special courses in printing, dia-
er dealing with the question of mond polishing and the building
man-power, permit me to go trades.
on to the labor economy, to our
self-made undertakings, the
grand structure we have built
during 30 years thanks to the
efforts of countless unnamed
individuals with initiative and
Is On the Air
creative vision, people with the
ability to do things and the love
to do it — that economy which
was born of the Histadrut in
its entirety or of a section
thereof.
More than half the Histadrut
breadwinners — over 155,000
Every Sunday Morning
workers — are engaged in labor
Directed by
enterprises. According to esti-
Louis Levine
mates of Hevrat Ovdim, this
Chairman of
represents a third of all work-
Organizations Division
ers in Israel. In agriculture —
about 70 per cent; industry
23 per cent; passenger and
JEWISH NEWS
PAGE 6-JAN. 9, 1953
freight transport — practically

,HISTADRUT

KUPAT HOLIM, the Histadrut medical arm, is gearing itself
for a record-breaking year when it will be rendering health care
to a full million Israeli men, women and children in 1953.
The new annual budget announced by Kupat Holim will
amount to $30,000,000 more than all Other public health agencies
combined. In addition to an enlarged medical and technical staff
which now numbers 6.000 doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists
and so on, Kupat Holim will continue the construction of hospi-
tals and dispensaries through the land.
Largest of the new undertakings is the Eliezer Kaplan Me-
morial Hospital at Rehovoth, which will consist of a cluster of
pavilions, residential quarters for staff, a nursing school, on fifty
acres of land. The Kaplan Hospital, which will serve the entire
Negev, will cost $2,000,000.

Detroit to Sponsor Surgical Pavilion

The Detroit Israel Histadrut Campaign has decided to sponsor
the surgical pavilion of the Kaplan Hospital and equip it fully
with operating tables, oxygen tents and the most modern equip-
ment.

This is one of the first units of the Eliezer Kaplan Hospital
at Rehovoth financed ...)37 funds raised through the Histadrut
Campaign in the United States. This hospital will serve the
entire Negev area.

•

Kupat Holim has decided to build separate pavilions because
the hospital is needed as quickly as possible and it is quicker to
build a one-story structure than it is to erect a five-story building.
The Detroit surgical pavilion, consisting of eleven fully equip-
ped wards, is slated for construction early this Spring, when the
current local drive, whose funds will finance the undertaking,

attains its objective of $300,000.

I 1 :15-11:30 A.M.
Station Will

HIMONT MEN OF 1952

Jack Malamud

At left, a patient is recovering ir, an oxygen tent, while at
right, a doctor prepares instruments for an operation (note
operating table in foreground). These two items alone repre-
sent the vital need for funds if Israel is to mend her many ail-
ing new citizens.

Nathan Rose

*

Jack Malamud, Furniture Division, and. Nathan Rose, Berez-
nitzer, were honored by the National Committee for Labor

Israel in recognition of their outstanding work during the 1952
Histadrut Campaign in Detroit.

Landsmanschaften and Labor Zionist branches and Farband
groups have pledged to finance the purchase of X-ray machines,
operating tables and oxygen tents for the surgical pavilion.

The Entire Jewish Community is Cordially Invited to the

Formal Opening of Detroit's Israel Histadrut Campaign

SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1953, 8 P.M.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

RUDOLPH HALLEY

President of New York

City Council

Guests

RUTH KOBART

Outstanding Interpreter of

Yiddish and Israeli songs

