6—Friday, May 23, 1969

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Agriculture Dept., Israel in Accord on Importing Etrog

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Depart-

The problem developed last year

of Agriculture has worked ' from an Agriculture Department
Center Strike Continues With Little
1, ment
out a new arrangement with Israel regulation banning the importation
importing the etrog (citron) of citrus fruits from the Middle
Hope of Settlement; Bond Staff Back on
East unless fumigated, which
from Israel for use during the

One strike was settled, another
continues—and there seems to bel
little hope for an early settlement.
The Jewish Community Center
and the Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service are two of the 14
agencies affiliated with the United
Community Services that have
been struck for two weeks now by
maintenance workers.
A press conference was called
by the maintenance union for
II a.m. Thursday—too late for coy-
erage for this issue. Richard
Fernoile of the Detroit Urban
League, speaking for the union,
admitted that the union's repre-
sentatives did not show up for the
proposed bargaining meeting on
Monday because they will deal
only with the UCS and the United
Foundation.
George D. Keil. president of the
Center. reported on Tuesday that
a meeting with representatives of
the union had been arranged for
1:30 p.m. Monday. at the request
of the Labor Mediation Board. but
no union representative appeared
at this meeting . . . and we were
unable to proceed with the nego-
tiations." Keil declared:
The inflexible position of the
union—that it will not bargain
with us unless USC and OF par-
ticipate—is the cause for the
continuation of the present im-
passe. We will nonetheless con-
tinue to provide our services as
beSt we can."
Several events that were sched-
uled at the Center. were. however,
either canceled or the meeting
place changed.
Detroit employes of the Israel
Bond Organization also were on
strike for a week. They are among
the 450 to 475 clerical and profes-
sional employes of the Israel Bond
Organization who went on a na-
tional strike upon expiration of
their contract last Friday. The
deadlock in negotiating a new con-
tract was broken W e d n e s d a y
night.
Israel Bond offices remained
open. They were manned by ex-
ecutive and supervisory personnel
not affiliated with the striking
union. Talks on the outstanding

issues involved in negotiating a '
new two-year contract were held in
New York between bond officials'
and representatives of Local 1707
of the Community and Social
Agency Employes, an affiliate of
the American Federation of State.
County and Municipal Employes.
At issue were minimum wage
scales and across-the-board in-
creases for profession's, cost of liv-
ing allowances and severance pay.

coming Sukkot holiday which is
less cumbersome than the method
used last year to assure that the
citron is free. from the Mediter-
ranean fruit fly. the Agudath Israel
of America reported.
Rabbi Morris Sherer. executive
president of the Orthodox group.
called the agreement a "model
example of international good will
to amicably resolve a relit:ions

would have made it virtually im-
possible for American Jews to ob-
serve the holiday properly, Rabbi
Sherer said.

lie negotiated an agreement

with Agriculture Department of-
ficials under which a department
representative worked in Israel

The new agreement accepts ter-
the Israel govern-
ment's plant protection divIsion
which will examine each etrog
while the U.S. government re-
serves the right to re-inspect any
etrog on arrival. Rabbi Sherer
said Chaim Ouziel, economte at-
tache at the Israel Embassy in
Washington, worked with the Agri-
culture Department to achieve the

tification of

agreement.

to supervise inspection of the, A man knows when he is instill-
etrog after a 10-day incubation I ed, and not all the wits In the
period prior to shipment over - world can enlighten him on that

seas.

point. — Henry David Thoreau.

Plaza Named for Held
Requested of NY Council

NEW YORK (JTA) — The City
Council of New York was asked to
name a plaza on the Lower East
Side for Adolph Held, newspaper
and labor official, who died here
recently at the age 84. A bill to
that effect was introduced by
Councilman Saul S. Sharison, who
represents the area.
The plaza is near the Educa-
tional Alliance and Jewish Daily
Forward. the Yiddish language
daily that Mr. Held had served as
general manager and city editor.
Earlier in the day. Mayor John V.
Lindsay signed a bill also sponsor-
ed in the council by Sharison
which renamed Columbia St., on
the Lower East Side. as Kazan St.
for Abraham Kazan. a Jewish
needle trades pioneer here who
was instrumental in developing
labor-sponsored cooperative hous-
ing in the city.

Catholic College to Train
Blind at Jewish Center

BOSTON (JTA) — The graduate
school of arts and sciences of Bos-
ton College, a Catholic school, has
started a program at the Hebrew
Rehabilitation Center for the Aged
to teach visually handicapped aged
persons how to move about the
facility. The program was devel-
oped by Evelyn Dreayer, director
of the center's social service de-
parment, in cooperation with John
Burke of the Catholic college. A
group of graduate students will
work at the center, teaching orien-
tation and mobility to both mem-
bers of the staff and blind or par-
tially blind reseidents. Maurice I.
May, center executive director,
said the program will be reviewed
after a six-week trial period.

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