Israel Bond Strike's Effect Is Argued by Both Sides in Four-Week Dispute

NEW ,YORK (JTA)—The Israel
Bond Organization claimed Mon-
day that the strike of 500 employes
now in its fourth week "has had
very little effect so far in reduc-
ing Bond Sales."
A spokesman for the IBO told
the JTA that. according to un-
official estimates, at least $2.000.-
000 in Bonds were sold at func-
tions in 19 cities outside of Ne%v
York Sunday.
The spokesman admitted that
Gov. Milton J. Shapp . of Pennsyl-
vania refused to cross the picket
line to attend a bond dinner in
Philadelphia Sunday night, at
which he was to be the principal
speaker. According to the IBO
spokesman, the Philadelphia bond
office had advised Gov. Shapp,
who is Jewish, that there was a
strike and he would be "excused"
from attending the function be-
cause "we didn't want to embar-
rass him politically."
A spokesman for Local 1707 of
the Community and Social Agency
Employes Union, AFL-CIO. told
the JTA that 500 people were ex-
pected at the Philadelphia bond
dinner, the major function of the
current campaign in that city, but
only 200 showed up. The spokes-
man said he got the figure from
the pickets..

The Yiddish organ of the Labor secretary-treasurer of the United
Zionist movement, the Kempfer. Automobile Workers Union in De-
characterized the Israel Bond troit, to Leo Bernstein, executive
IF YOU TURN THE
workers strike as an "almost un- vice president of the Israel Bond
forgivable indiscretion, crying out Organization, indicating that the
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
to heaven." The Kempfer editorial UAW was deeply disturbed by the
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
goes on to say that "sale of Israel lack of progress in negotiations.
The letter noted that the UAW
Bonds cannot be regarded as any
_other industry: and if these pick- holds $785,000 worth of Israel
ets. or part of them, don't sense Bonds and purchases them be-
this huge difference, but have only cause it supports Israel and has
decided to 'work for Israel' instead close relations with Histadrut, Is-
of for some other employer, then rael's labor federation.
there isn't much to say. However,
if they did choose to work for Is-
rael Bonds with a feeling for Is-
rael, then they should have under-
stood from the very start, that
picketing Israel Bonds Is nothing
Asst. Sales Manager
less than a scandal."
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- A spokesman for the union
told the JTA that many unions
which purchase Israel Bonds
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Bond functions and have threat-
ened to withhold further purr
chases, until the strike is settled.
A spokesman for the Bond Or-
SERVING ONLY
ganization conceded that it has re-
PRIME AND
ceived communications from some
CHOICE MEATS
unions "expressing interest in a
settlement and asking for details
and information" about negotia-
tions. The spokesmant old the JTA
that he knew of only three union
locals that indicated they would
withhold Israel Bond purchases.
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On the other hand, he said, at
least six unions, whose names he
declined to identify, have made
new purchases of Israel Bonds
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since the strike began on May 14.
The Bond Organization and the
scribed in 1881 by Dr. Warren Tay.
a British ophthalmologist, and union spokesmen both referred to
documented by Dr. Bernard Sachs, a May 27 letter from Emil Mazy,
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The IBO spokesman claimed
that only 360 were expected,
that 280 attended and that $526,-
000 worth of Bonds were sold.
He was unable to confirm or
deny a claim by the union
spokesman that only 25 persons
showed up for a Bond affair in
Long Beach, Calif.,. Sunday at
which 100 were expected. The
union spokesman claimed that in
Long Beach, persons pledging to
buy Bonds were told not to send
in their money because the local
Bond office was inoperative.
The union and the Bond man-
agement are continuing their
negotiations through the New York
State Mediation Service.
A session held last Thursday
failed to produce progress toward
a settlement, the union spokes-
man 'told the JTA.
In Jerusalem, a finance minis-
try spokesman told the JTA Tues-
day that the strike in the United
States has not affected the sale of
Israel bonds "despite a decrease
in the attendance at bond meet-
ings." The spokesman said that
volunteers have managed to fill
the functions of the striking em-
ployes. He refused to comment on
the merits, of the strike _ , saying he
lacked information about the
working conditions of the strikers.

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Couples Are Screened for Carriers
of Disease That Hits Jewish Infants

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

(Copyright 1971. JTA, Inc.)

WASHINGTON— Blood samples
were taken recently from 1,280 men
and women of childbearing age at
the Beth El Congregation's temple
in nearby Bethesda, in the world's
first mass screening of possible
carriers of the dread Tay-Sachs
disease.
Children born to Jewish parents
of Eastern European origin are its
likeliest victims. While both Jews
and non-Jews can carry the Tay-
Sachs gene, the odds are approxi-
mately one in 30 of Jewish men
and women being carriers as corn-
pared with one in 300 of non-Jews,
according to medical authorities.
With close to 250,000 Jews living
in the Washington-Baltimore area.
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
was informed that about 8,000 of
them are carriers and that between
100 and 200 couples are currently
unaware that they can have a Tay-
Sachs child.
Another mass screening will be
held at the Jewish Social Service
Agency Sunday in suburban Rock-
ville, Md. A series of five screen-
ings has been set in Baltimore.
The screenings are being con-
ducted by the John F. Kennedy
Institute Tay-Sachs program of
the. Johns Hopkins University
Hospital in Baltimore, under the
direction of Dr. Michael M.
Kaback.
The Tay-Sachs Foundation is co-
ordinating the arrangement for the
Washington screenings. It was
formed about a year ago by eight
couples after the disease had struck
some members of their families.
The emphasis of this program
is to detect ,couples in which both
members are carriers so that they
can be helped to have normal
children, according to Dr. Robert
S. Zeiger, a foundation director.
Statistically, he added, three of
four of their births will be normal.
Through medical processes, an
affected fetus can now be detected
and the families can be saved the
anguish of having a child born
with they disease.
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