Clash In Histadrut

Season's Best Wishes

BY ELIAHU SALPETER

Green's Pharmacy

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3 Poles Convicted
in Slaying of Jews

(Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

It may be somewhat over- a result there was a consider-
dramatized—but probably not able disengagement between the
too far from the truth—to say index and the allowances, and
that the future of Israel's econ- now allowances are revised only
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omy depends to a very large once in three months and only
extent on the heart of one man. if the rise in the index exceeds
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That heart belongs to Pin- a certain number of points.
Thus the Histadrut leadership
has Lavon, secretary general
of the Histadrut and is, unfor- has, to a large extent, associated
itself with the broad national i
tunately, not in top shape.
as against the shortsighted
Pinhas Lavon, top official of terest
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conception of the workers' inter-
the Histadrut for the second ests. Meanwhile, Histadrut en-
VEEP
time (having served in between terprises grew more powerful,
I \ UHL man
as Minister of Agriculture and and their management more in-
IN MIND
later as Minister of Defense), dependent of the Histadrut Ex-
symbolizes and spearheads the ecutive.
clashes between the
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struggle between the Histadrut national The
interest and the inter-
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and its own economic enter- ests of the
"Hevrat Haovdim"
prises. This struggle entered a became chore
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pronounced, and
sharper form in the past year the Histadrut Executive
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began
and may erupt into the open in to feel that the "Hevrat Haov-
the next convention of the dim" managers are getting too
Mapai party.
big for their boots.
Histadrut started out in 1920
When Pinhas Lavon resumed
Our
Happy Hanukah to
as a trade union. But as the
post of secretary general of
problems faced by the piOneers the
Friends and Patrons
Histadrut, one of his basic
in Palestine were vastly differ- the
tasks was to cut down to size
ent
from
the
problems
in
any
"Hevrat Haovdim" bosses.
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other country, so the tasks fac- the reorganized
the central man-
ing the Jewish trade unions He
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of Hevrat Haovdim, in-
were vastly different from those agement
its membership to in-
of other trade unions.' The His- creasing
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"outsiders," others besides
tadrut's task was not only to clude
of individual enter-
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defend and improve the labor managers
who had a vested interest
conditions of its members; His- prises
tadrut, at an early stage of its in the Histadrut Executive.
Lavon's conception, strong-
existence, began to create jobs
for its present and future mem- ly supported by some of the
most important Mapai leaders,
Happy Holiday
bers.
was that "Hevrat Haovdim"
Scores of collective and co-
should stop acting like a capi-
operative agricultural settle-
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talistic business enterprise
ments, and workshops and
Chinese and American Dishes
trying to find the smoothest
small factories, have progres-
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road to highest profits, par-
sively been built into a form-
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ticularly by throwing its
idable economic empire—the
weight around and using its
largest
in
Israel.
All
these
en-
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resources to buy up existing
terprises are owned by the
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private firms. Instead, "Hev-
"Hevrat Haovdim" (Workers
rat Haovdim" should return to
Company), the central hold-
its original task of pioneering
ing company of Histadrut.
Today, Tevrat Haovdim owns, establishment of new indus-
jointly with the settlers, 450 ag- tries where private capital
settlements with farm- would not or could not go in.
Best Wishes on Hanukah ricultural
lands totalling 3,700,000 dunams
"Hevrat Haovdim's" old bosses
(over 900,000 acres) as well as fought back, in the Histadrut
ENCORE GRILL
scores of industrial, service and and in Mapai. They received
marketing enterprises, including
assistance when Pin-
& DINING ROOM "Solel Boneh", the largest con- unexpected
has Lavon began to have trouble
struction company in the Middle with his heart and was hospital-
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East. Also, steel, pipe, cement, ized. The outcome of this cru-
rubber, electrical equipment, cial struggle may well be de-
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ceramics, glass and many other termined by how quickly and
factories. Directly or indirectly, how well his health is restored.
Hevrat Haovdim is a sharehold-
er, sometimes jointly with the
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Jewish_ Agency, in some of the
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most important enterprises of
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the country in the fields of
ACME DENTAL
transportation, communications
and banking.
McCULLY
LABORATORY
With the establishment of the
Emergency Repairs
State, Mapai has become the
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largest party in the Knesset and
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as such the party supplying the
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Prime Minister and most of the
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key ministers, including the
Minister of Finance. The honey-
moon between Histadrut and
the government c1id not last too
long. Slowly Mapai, and particu-
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larly those of its ministers who
headed economic departments,
DEARBORN
ROBISON
Sobered to the division between
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the interests of the state and
Chicken and Shrimp
the interests of the Histadrut
Quality Control
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of Foods, Pharmaceutical
and its enterprises. The first Testing
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crucial issue to arise was that
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of
the
cost
of
living
allowances.
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The old system was that each
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month, when the consumer in
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dex rose, there was a corre-
sponding automatic increase in
the allowances.
Histadrut leadership recog-
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that this system acts as a
constant accelerator of inflation
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I: :1 from which wage earners suffer
more than anybody else, despite
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VIENNA (JTA) — Three
Poles, convicted of annihilat-
ing Jews in camps and ghettos
during the Nazi occupation of
Poland, were sentenced to
death by a Polish court, accord-
ing to a report in the Warsaw
press -reaching here.
The three men were found
guilty of participating in the
"liquidation" of Jews in Bara-
novice, the ghettos of Nieswicz,
Herodiscza and other towns and
killing the entire Jewish popu-
lation of Stolowicz.
Their trial lasted about two
weeks, during which many Jews
appeared as witnesses.
Depositions were also read
from former Polish Jews now
in the Soviet Union and Israel.

Best Wishes for
A Joyous Hanukah

Anton Rasmussen

Snow Removal Service

20208 FREELAND
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Greetings

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Conveyor Hangers
& Iron Works

Rod Threading — U-Bolts

6415 W. VERNOR
VI 1-5154

As we extend our
best wishes for a
Joyous Hanukah ..
it is our sincere hope
that the season will bring
joy and contentment
to the people of Israel
wherever they may be!

gins

gasurance Agency

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Wishes to Take This Opportunity
to Extend Sincere Best Wishes for a
Joyous Holiday to Their Many Dealers
and to the Jewish Community of Detroit

