Strikes Grip Israel; Golda Angered
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vent wildcat strikes and establish
orderly procedures for calling
strikes.
Mrs. Meir is said to want the
firm backing of Histadrut on labor
relations laws and refuses to dis-
cuss them in the Knesset until she
is assured of Histadrut support.
But the Knesset will take up the
labor situation Monday on the mo-
tion of 30 members of the Knesset
of the opposition Gahal and Free
Center factions.
Addressing a press conference
on Aliya in Jerusalem Wednesday,
the Jewish Agency chairman,
Louis A. Pincus, said the current
wave of strikes in Israel was very
bad for the country's image. He
urged labor leaders to take into
account their negative influence on
fund raising.
Customs officials continued
their strike at Lydda and Ash-
dod Wednesday and the entire
technical and engineering staff
of Israel's post office threatened
to walk out the day after Rosh
Hashana in support of their wage
demands. A post office strike
would sever Israel's • telephone,
radio, telegraph and telex con-
nection with the rest of the world.
Jerusalem mail carriers mean-
while escalated their work slow-
down by refusing to deliver printed
matter, greeting cards, postcards
and any pieces of mail "heavier
than normal or unusual in size."
Their previous action was limited
to registered letters.
Premier Meir, who was vaca-
tioning when the Lydda strike
occurred, summoned the Labor
alignment leadership to an ur-
gent meeting. Most cabinet min-
isters attended, including De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan,
who rarely intervenes in econom-
ic matters. Mrs. Meir's anger
was aroused by the failure of
the Lydda employes to give 48
hours strike notice as stipulated
by law.
"If strikers do not give notice
they must know they are breaking
the law and in democratic coun-
tries breakers of law are punished
even 'by prison sentences," she
said. "If they don't give notice
and get off scot free there is no
value to the law."
Premier Meir, a lifelong Social-
ist and Labor Zionist, did not con-
ceal her bitterness over the strikes
that have plagued Israel in recent
months and their potential harm
to the country. "I knew poverty in
my childhood. I cannot sit idly and
watch as things are deteriorating
and approaching a catastrophe. I
do not agree to sit in a govern-
ment when there is an alleged
class struggle between it and the
workers," she said. "I shall not
agree in the twilight of my years
to head a government which is
called a millionaires-maker."
"If it was remotely true that this
government was against the poor
it would not last for another hour,"
she said.
Mrs. Meir called the Lydda
strike "pure hooliganism" and
warned that "radical unrest of
the kind we have been experienc-
ing has brought fascism to many
countries."
Mrs. Meir had caustic words for
her alignment partner, Mapam,
which she accused of acting in the
strike situation as if it was not in
the government.
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir
told the meeting that he could not
prepare next year's budget under
the present circumstances.
The customs strike has seriously
affected Israel's exports. The
treasury moved Wednesday to al-
low shippers to bypass customs
clearances for export items and
deferred export duty payments.
The Tel Aviv District Attorney's
office was asked Wednesday to
file suit in the labor courts against
the Lydda customs officials for
breaking their contract which ex-
pires next April. If the court finds
a violation, the workers will be
required to return to work or face
prison terms. The customs officers
relaxed their strike Wednesday to
allow the shipment of perishable
agricultural products worth tens
of millions of dollars from Lydda
at the request of farmers.
Jaabari Cancels Meeting of West Bank Mayors
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sheikh
Mohammed Ali Jaabari , the mayor
of Hebron, said he has called off
a meeting of West Bank mayors
scheduled in his home for. Sunday
because it was falsely interpreted
as political.
Remembrance Award
Won by Israeli Poet
and by Russian Jewess
LONDON (JTA)—Abba Kovner,
an Israeli poet, and Nadezhda Man-
delstam of Moscow were named
the winners of the 1971-72 Remem-
brance Award for outstanding lit-
erature relating to the Holocaust
and its aftermath.
The award is sponsored by the
World Federation of Bergen-Belsen
Associations.
Mrs. Mandelstam is the author
of •"Hope Against Hope," a biog-
raphy of her late husband, the
Russian-Jewish poet Osip Mandel-
stam who was a victim of the
Stalin purges.
Kovner is the author of "Little
Sister of Mine" and several vol-
umes of poetry and prose dealing
with his experiences as a ghetto
fighter and member of the anti-
Nazi resistance movement during
World War II.
was smuggled aboard the airliner
inside a cake by a girl who claimed
she received it from an unknown
person. Aviation officials believe
the attempt may..have been a "dry
run" by a terrorist group to test
El Al security measures which
since have been tightened.
The first inkling that anything
untoward had occurred came
last Friday when the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency reported
that policemen were inspecting
passengers' luggage at the cus-
toms checkpoints at Lydda Air-
port.
According to information dis-
closed Monday, the explosives
were placed aboard El Al jets last
week in London and Rome.
In one instance a Dutch girl un-
knowingly carried an explosive-
filled suitcase aboard an Israel-
bound El Al jet at the request of
a young man described as a
"hippie" type whom she had met
at a travel agency.
According to the girl's story he
proposed marriage, and both de-
cided to go to Israel. Shortly before
their departure, however, the man
said he couldn't make the same
plane but would follow her on the
next. He asked her to take one
suitcase for him so that he could
avoid paying overweight charges.
The girl boarded the plane with-
out disclosing that she was carry-
ing luggage of unknown content.
But she told the story to a young,
Israeli passenger and at his sug-
gestion they delivered the mys-
terious suitcase to security authori-
ties when they landed at Lydda.
There the suitcase was found to
contain explosives.
The Peruvian girl told a simi-
lar story of how she was be-
friended by a dark-haired young
man , who managed to switch
suitcases with her on the way
to the airport. That suitcase also
was filled with explosives and
had a defective activating device.
Authorities here are convinced
that both girls are innocent inas-
much as they would not knowingly
have taken such deadlly devices
Later, Sheikh Jaabari told a
visiting delegation of the Cana-
dian United Jewish Appeal that
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In London, 200 passengers board-
ing an El Al jumbo jet flight to
Israel were delayed for more than
two hours at Heathrow Airport
Monday as security officers car-
ried out 'a meticulous search of
parcels, examined shoes and even
checked pens for concealed explo-
sives.
The intensive security check
was carried out in the wake of
Monday's disclosure. Monday's
passengers queued up to be frisked
by uniformed police.
Two armed guards traveled on
the airliner to protect it from a
possible hijack attempt. Passen-
gers on a BOAC VC-10 flight to
Israel went through an electronic
check of their persons and had
their luggage examined before
boarding the plane.
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the Arab governments were to
blame for the calamity that befell
the Arab world. Replying to a
series of questions, he said Arab
leaders were ignorant if they
thought they could eliminate Is-
rael. "It is here to stay," he said.
The meeting was criticized by
the Jordanian government and
local Palestinian groups. Jaabari
said he had no intention of dis-
cussing political matters.
Abortive Sabotage Spurs New Measures
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terrorists who, no longer able to
strike at Israel from Jordan or
Lebanon, may make targets of
El Al or other planes.
At the same time, El Al an-
nounced that it would institute
new strict security measures, and
Israel's cabinet discussed the air-
line's security measures. Shimon
Peres, minister of transport and
communications, staled after the
cabinet meeting that the sabotage
efforts represented a new means
of terrorism despite the fact that
they had been unsuccessful.
The new sabotage attempts co-
incided almost to the day with last
year's multiple hijacking of one
British airliners by terrorists of
the Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine and the aborted
attempt to seize an El Al jet in
the air over Britain.
According to an unconfirmed
report here, a hijack attempt
against another El Al jet was
foiled at London Airport last week.
The report said that a toy pistol
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