Thousands Strike for Higher Wages

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

U.S. Helps Aged
CHICAGO (JTA) — The
to demand a radical change Department of Housing and
Urban
Development has
in the institute's scholastic
credit system. Technion ad- made a grant of $1,015,200
ministrators countered with to the Council for Jewish
a threat to cancel the seines, Elderly, a newly-established
agency of the Jewish Fed-
ter if a prolonged strike eration
of Metropolitan Chi-
took place.
cago.
Technion officials agreed
to base grades on teacher
evaluations in addition to
final examination results.
They rejected a demand for
another chance in examina-
tions at the end of the term
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Thirty cepted by Kupat Holim, the
thousand engineers and tech- Histadrut sick fund, and
nicians and 6,000 govern- non-government hospitals.
ment hospital employes went
Shemtov argued that the
on strike Tuesday in support recommendations were not
of demands for higher wages. binding and advised the
The failure of last-minute workers to negotiate a new
efforts to settle the disputes wage scale with the hospi-
left Israelis with partially tals, but the hospital em-
blacked-out television ployes remained adamant.
screens, radios silent except
Israelis woke up to the
for a brief hourly news bul- new year to find their sea-
letin and the threat of cur- ports paralyzed by a walk-
tailed power supplies and out of maritime officers and
disrupted telephone and telex factories shut down by work
communications.
stoppages protesting the lift-
The walkout by hospital ing of price controls.
course.
administrative and catering
The maritime walkout
employes halted health ser- stemmed from Histadrut's
vices at 22 government hos- refusal to recognize the
pitals except for emergencies Maritime Officers Associa-
and cases involving members tion, a union established by
of the security forces.
licensed officers who had
The engineers and tech- previously belonged to the
nicians called a 24-hour general maritime union.
"warning strike" after meet-
The termination at mid-
ings Monday night with night Dec. 31 of general
Finance Minister Pinh as price controls that had been
Sapir, Labor Minister Yosef in effect since August 1971,
Almogi and other govern- set off a wave of protests
ment officials ended in dead- which found expression in
lock.
two-hour work stoppages at
The engineers, who are factories all over the coun-
demanding a 74 per cent try.
wage hike in the highest job
The government fixed
categories, rejected a gov- prices on 125 basic com-
ernment proposal to let a modities and services in or-
special committee work out der to avert a sudden spurt
new wage scales.
of price increases. But gen-
Power stations, telephone eral price increases of over
and telex exchanges con- 10 per cent were anticipated,
tinued to function Tuesday and many shops have al-
but without supervisors and ready posted higher prices.
without maintenance men to
Dr. Moshe Mandelbaum,
make repairs if breakdowns deputy director of the finance
occurred. Television p r o- ministry, said that he doubt-
graming was limited to the ed the decontrol order would
Arabic program and the He- be followed by a sharp up-
brew news.
ward trend in prices. Gen.
Histadrut officials and Haim Barley, minister of
Health Minister Victor Shem. commerce and industry,
toy tried in vain to avert signed an administrative or-
the hospital strike. The work- der fixing ceilings on many
ers are demanding that gov- edibles and such items as tin
ernment hospitals accept the used in canning, structural
recent recommendations of steel and bath tubs.
a special inquiry committee,
Some 2,000 first- and sec-
including higher wages, ond-year students of the
which have already been ac- Haifa Technion held strike

"One should not wipe off
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—Talmud.

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