THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, Decembe r 5, 1958-12

Histadrut Rally National Labor Israel Convention Adopts $5 Million Histadrut Goal
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — The and constructive solution to ment, housing and decent liv-
to Hear Reports four-day
annual convention of this problem, which is one of ing conditions. At the same Histadrut to Begin
the National Committee for the major roadblocks on the time, by harnessing the ener-
from Delegates
Labor Israel, attended by 2,500 way to • peace in the Middle gies of its members and insti- Admission of Arabs
tutions to the vital tasks con-

Local delegates to the na-
tional conference of the Israel
Histadrut Campaign, which took
place over the Thanksgiving
weekend in New York, will re-
port at a rally Dec. 14, in the
Hayim Greenberg Center.
assistant
Israel Stolarsky,
national secretary of the NCLI,
will be here to address the
gathering.
All workers, delegates and
organizational representatives
are invited to participate in
the program. A breakfast will
be served.
The report rally will climax
Histadrut "cash c o 11 e c t ion
week," Dec. 7 to 14, during
which time all workers and cab-
inet members are requested to
contact the Histadrut office and
to assist in making calls to col-
lect as much cash as possible
before the end of the year.
Delegates to the New York
parley included Morris Chasnick
and Morris Hayet, Farband; .Lai-
ble Hoffmitz and David Sislin,
LZOA; Mrs. Adeline Salinger,
Pioneer Women; Louis Cohan,
J. B. Ormond and William Sel-
man, Landsmanshaft; Joseph
Heideman, Workmen's Circle;
David Chaney and Isaac Litwak,
trade union.
Representing the executive
staff of the campaign were Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Malamud, Morris
Lieberman, chairman; and Hy
Fogelman, executive director.

delegates from all parts of the
United States and Canada,
adopted a $5,000,000 fund-
raising goal for 1959.
A roll call of delegates
brought $500,000 to the plat-
form as a "pledge" on fulfill-
ment o fthe full quota. Joseph
Schlossberg was re-elected na-
tional chairman and Dr. Dev
Beigun national secretary.
A resolution on peace in the
Middle East noted that Israel
had recently underlined once
again its readiness to cooperate
in helping the Arab refugees
rebuild their lives. It called on
world opinion to bring to bear
on the Arab rulers the need to
"act in realistic and reasonable
ways that will lead to an early

N. Y. Post Office
Denies Stalling

NEW YORK, (JTA) — New
Post office officials insisted this
week that they were not stall-
ing on the problem of requir-
ing Jewish postal employes to
agree to work on the Jewish
Sabbath .
The Rabbinical Council of
America, which has been nego-
tiating with Post Office offi-
cials for months, charged offi-
cials with delaying action on the
problem, specifically accusing
the Post Office of stalling action
until after the recent elections.
The problem concerns Post
Office operations primarily in
Manhattan and the Bronx where
the Rabbinical Council has
made a formal protest against a
ruling requiring prospective
postal workers to sign an agree-
ment to work on Fridays, Sat-
urdays and holidays, if as-
signed.
The rabbinical group has
charged that this regulation ex-
ists only in the Bronx and Man-
hattan where there are 13,000
Jewish postal employes among
the New York Post Office's 37,-
000 workers.
The rabbinical group asserted
its official had received assur-
ances that the rule would be
revised. Howard Coonen, state
regional director of the Post
Office Department, said the is-
sue was still under study.

East."
Moshe Sharett, former Prime
Minister of Israel, addressing
the convention, said that Hista-
drut, Israel's general federa-
tion of labor, is "piercing the
walls of political hostility"
erected around the country by
its Arab neighbors. As an ex-
ample, Mr. Sharett cited the
three-month seminar on co-
operative economy being con-
ducted in Tel Aviv with dele-
gates from 16 Asian and Afri-
can nations in attendance.
Mr. Sharett, one of the foun-
ders of Histadrut, spoke of its
role in Israel in the last dec-
ade. "Histadrut has acted as
a bulwark for the rights of
the common man in employ-

Eisenhower Urged to Call White House
Conference on Arab Refugee Problem

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Rep.i
Emanuel Celler, chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee,
called for a White House con-
ference to settle once and for
all the problem of the 900,000
Arab refugees. He said Presi-
dent Eisenhower should sum-
mon such a meeting and urge
"enlightened members of the
United Nations "to accept a por-
tion of the refugees. He sug-
gested that the United States
should take 25,000 Arab refu-
gees if other nations accepted a
"fair share."
The United Nations General
Assembly's Special Political
Committee has suspended .its
debate on the Arab refugee
issue in the face of a deadlock
between the Western Powers,
led by the United States, and
the Arab states on the future

Israel Wooing Foreign
Investment Capital

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
head of Trade Section of Israel's
Foreign Ministry invited foreign
investment in Israel's natural
resources, in its industry and
its trade. Moshe Bartur, head of
the section, pointed out that
Israel's trade position was im-
proving and that Israel's foreign
commerce was already equal to
that of Turkey.
He expressed the hope that
the British Treasury would
liberalize its policy toward in-
vestments in Israel to enable
British investors to participate
in the growth of Israel's hous-
ing, power,. chemical and min-
eral industries. He pointed out
that Israel-British t r a de had
more tha ndoubled between 1949
and 1957.

of the UN Relief and Works
Agency for the refugees. It is
anticipated that the matter will
arise again in a plenary session
of the Assembly toward the end
of the current session.
The United States, principal
supporter of the UNRWA pro-
gram, sought to have a study
committee set up to consider
what was to be done in the sit-
uation after 1960, when the cur-
rent UNRWA program is sched-
uled to come to an end. The
Arab states demanded continua-
tion of the present schedule,
with U.N. member states sup-
plying the funds for 1959-1960,
without prior consideration of
what would happen after mid-
1960.

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fronting the hard-struggling to Full Membership
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Pre-
and rapidly developing state,
it led them to subordinate liminary steps were taken by
their short-term interests to Histadrut, the Israeli Feder-
the supreme consideration of ation of Labor, for admission
of Arabs to full membership.
national wellbeing."
Another convention speaker, Until now, Arabs have been
Yaacov Herzog, Israel's Minis- eligible for health insurance
ter at its Washington Embassy, and other privileges inside in-
paid tribute to the ties linking dividual unions which are con.
the Histadrut and the Ameri- stituents of the Federation.
can labor movement, describ- Now there has been a top-
ing these links as "one of the level decision to submit the
cornerstones in the edifice of matter of full rights for Arabs
to the entire membership for
American-Israel friendship."
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, who ratification.
As a first step toward lin-
addressed the parley, urged
United States sponsorship of a plementing the new policy,
resolution in the United Na- Histadrut today named a new
tions to create an international director of its Arab section.
resettlement agency to solve The new Arab affairs head is
the Arab refugee problem. He an immigrant from Iraq. He is
also called upon Washington only 29, and a graduate of
to recognize Israel as a "strong both Hebrew University and
ally of the free world" by pro- Oxford.
viding it with military assist-
ance under the terms of the
Mutual Security Act.
It was reported that a total
of $35,000,000 has been raised
in the United States and Can-
FULLY INSURED
ada during the last ten years
for the medical, welfare and vo-
Special Fall Prices
cational training services of the
Histadrut in Israel; it was re-
ported here this week by the
National Committee for Labor
Israel at the 35th annual con-
BIRWOOD ROOFING
vention.
In presenting these figures,
& MAINTENANCE
Dr. Dov Biegun said that ap-
CO.
proximately $27,000,000 h a d
been raised by the campaigns
Ask for
conducted by the NCLI, of
Harry Miller
which he is national secretary,
and $8,000,000 by the Pioneer
Women's Organization, which is
affiliated with the Labor Zion-
ist movement in this country.

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