Grave Financial Losses Result of Haifa Dockworker Strike
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV - The six-week slow-
down by Haifa port stevedores
caused damages totaling 1,000,000
pounds ($333,000) and caused a
drop of exports of 30 percent
during May when exports had been
expected to rise 10 per cent, Haim
Zadok, commerce and industry
minister said Tuesday.
"Last-ditch" talks were sched-
uled Wednesday between repre-
sentatives of Histadrut, and rep-
resentatives of the Stevedores,
after a government ultimatum that
it would close the Haifa port if
the dock workers did not return
to normal work schedules within
two days.
The cabinet minister gave his
summary as the stevedores point-
edly ignored a warning Sunday
from the Histadrut, Israel's labor
federation, to end their slowdown
within 24 hours or face sanctions.
The minister said that the slow-
down was causing danger of more
joblessness. Asserting also that ex-
ports of phOsrhates fell by two-
thirds in May, he revealed that
many Israeli factories were be-
ginning to suffer from shortages
of raw materials. He also said that
several exporters had reported
they would have to cut production
which will cause further unem-
ployment.
The dockers Tuesday asked
for a three-man commission, con-
sisting of Haifa Mayor Abba
Khoushy and one representa-
tive each of the government and
the Histadrut, to examine their
demands. They said they would
end the slowdown if such a com-
mission was created.
As a good-will gesture the dock-
ers agreed to exempt from their
slowdown tactics a half dozen ships
carrying exhibits for the Levant
Fair opening in Tel Aviv an June
24. The gesture was made to avoid
"harm to Israel's foreign relations."
The port situation had worsened
Monday with 50 shins tied up, half
of them awaiting unloading. More
and more shippers abandoned the
Haifa port and diverted Israel-
bound cargoes to Cyprus or Pir-
aeus to avoid the expensive wait
in Haifa.
The companies, of which Zim-
Israel lines is the largest, said
Sunday they would discuss the
possibility of diverting Haifa
port traffic to Ashdod and other
Mediterrean harbors. The firms
stated that, if they implemented
this diversion, their action was
likely to be followed by foreign
companies, resulting in the com-
plete shutdown of the Haifa
harbor.
The North American Israel East-
bound Conference meanwhile an-
nounced that, due to the Haifa
slowdown, a 20 per cent surcharge
will be imposed, effective July 3,
on trans-Atlantic cargo rates for
Israel.
Aaron Rosenfeld, agent for Am-
erican Exhort Lines, said the losses
due to the congestion in the harbor
at Haifa were "substantial."
One of his firm's ships, he said,
which arrived here last Monday
with 1,200 tons of general cargo,
would spend nine days awaiting
unloading, against a normal stay
of three days. The ship, he de-
clared, costs his company $2 a min-
ute while in service. A similar
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surcharge on shipping between
Israel and Europe went into ef-
fect a week ago.
Moshe Kol, minister of develop-
ment and tourism, called the strike
"a blow to the national prestige."
Mrs. Golda IVIeir, Mapai_ secre-
tary general, appealed to the Haifa
port workers to end their slow-
down and return to normal work
schedules. She made the appeal in
a speech to the Mapai Secretariat.
At the same time, the cabinet
decided to reopen the port of
Tel Aviv and to speed harbor
facilities in the new Port of Ash-
dod. Transport Minister Moshe
Carmel told the cabinet that the
port of Haifa may have to be
closed down, at least temporar-
ily, until a - solution to the labor
dispute is reached.
The workers at the Haifa port
are demanding wage increases ex-
ceeding, by far, the 5 per cent to
10 per cent wage hikes approved
for them by Histadrut.
Meanwhile, the two parties in
Israel's dominant political align-
ment - Mapai and Ahdut Avodah
- agreed tentatively here Monday
that indstrial firms unable to pay
additional cost-of-living allowances,
beginning July 1, be permitted to
pass on that extra financial burden
to the government.
Additional cost-of-living allow-
ances are to be granted at the
beginning of next month to work-
ers earning not more than 350
Israel pounds ($117) per month.
The agreement was reached at
a conference held by Finance Min-
ister Pinhas Sapir, who is acting
premier; Mrs. Meir, and Israel
Galilee, representing Ahdut Avo-
dab.
There had been fears here that
failure to agree on the vital issue
of financing the cost-of-living in-
crease might have endangered the
future of the Mapai-Ahdut Avodah
alginment.
Short-term solutions for Israel's
unemployment were outlined ear-
lier by Finance Minister Pinhas
Sapir at a meeting of Mapai-Ahdut
Avodah.
He said established factories
could open branches in develop-
ment towns, diamond plants
could expand, new houses could
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(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
ECUMENICAL ECHOES: In the dialogues taking place now
between rabbis and Christian clergymen in this country an amazing
picture emerges . . . It was clear at the beginning that the rabbis and
the priests would not see eye to eye on the New Testament . . .
However, it was believed that on the Old Testament there would be no
differences between the spiritual leaders of Christian and Jewish
religions . . . The experience shows that this is not the case . . . Many
biblical concepts seem to mean quite different things to Jesuits and
rabbis . . . Similar is the situation with history . . . To the Catholics,
for instance, the Crusade is a holy venture, while to the Jews the
Crusade is noted chiefly for the accompanying mass-killing of Jews .. .
The Enlightenment is considered by Jews a period which opened the
gates of the ghetto, while Christians often deplore the Enlightenment
as an assault on religious faith . . . In discovering these differences,
however, the tendency noted at the dialogues is to understand them
and to bridge them during question and answer periods . . . Rabbis
and Jewish scholars who participated in Jewish-Christian institutes
at St. Mary's College in Kansas, or at the Jesuit Woodstock College
had much to explain on why Jews do not accept Jesus . . . They also
gave reasons why Jews oppose any central religious authority, unlike
Catholics . . . They sketched the varieties of Jewish religious thought
and tradition through the ages and opened new avenues of thought
about Judaism among many of their Christian listeners.
*
*
ONLY YESTERDAY: About 80 percent of the Jews in this
country may now be American-born, but either their fathers or grand-
fathers were all immigrants from Europe ... An exhibition on Jewish
immigration and mass settlement in the United States during the past
100 years is therefore an important event for all those who may like
to know something about the trials and tribulations of their parents .
Such an exhibition, displaying hundreds of documents and pictures,
has been arranged by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research . . ,
It was opened in New York, with the assistance of United Hias Service,
and may be taken also to other cities . . . Like in a documentary film,
one can see from the exhibits how a large Jewish immigration from
Eastern Europe started in the latter part of the 1860's . . . The Ameri-
can Jewish organizations were at that time willing to accept only a
selective well-planned immigration of skilled, healthy and unmarried
workers . . . However, as many Jews emigrated on their own accord,
the organizations had no choice but to come to their aid when they
arrived in this country . . . Later, when anti-Jewish persecutions
increased in Russia, and the U.S. Congress passed a bill, in 1891,
barring immigrants likely to become public charges, the same Jewish
organizations strongly protested the inclusion of Russian Jews in that
category . . . From the beginning of this century till the outbreak of
World War I, Jewish immigration was constantly on the rise, especially
after the pogroms in Kishinev and in other cities in Russia in 1903
. . . Efforts were then made by American Jewish relief organizations
to settle as many immigrants as possible outside of New York and
the other metropolitan centers . . . The most comprehensive plan was
the Galveston Plan, which called for the debarkation of Jewish immi-
grants in Galveston and their settlement in the Southern and South-
western states . . This plan, however, was not too appealing and
brought to Galveston only about 10,000 immigrants within about seven
years prior to the outbreak of World War I . The exhibition contains
a lot of rich material on the immigration of Jews to this country after
World War I, and subsequently during the Nazi period and World
War II . . . It shows how Jewish relief organizations in this country
constantly laid stress on helping the immigrant to become settled
in new environments . . Photos of the "Ellis Island" years show
how thousands of Jews spent weeks there before they were admitted
as immigrants . . . The instructive exhibition was organized under the
direction of Zosa Czajkowski, a young but well-known historian who
last month received the Jewish Welfare Board Book Council 1965
award for the best book an the Nazi holocaust.
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10-Friday, June 10, 1966
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