THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, August 11, 1919
Subsidy Slash Hikes Food Prices; Histadrut Stages General Strike
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
two-hour nationwide strike,
called by the Histadrut
Monday to protest the gov-
ernment's cut in subsidies
which sent basic food prices
up by an average of 50 per-
cent, delayed flights at
Ben-Gurion Airport, dis-
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rupted banking and com-
munications and closed
down many large plants.
Histadrut spokesmen
said the strike was fully ob-
served throughout the
country except for exempted
fields, such as public trans-
portation, El Al and Arkia
airlines, military installa-
tions and the health serv-
ices. But the Manufacturers
Association contended that
at many factories the em-
ployes continued working.
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workers were incensed that
they had been exempted
from the strike, so they held
a four-hour strike. This de-
layed takeoffs for hours and
caused a bottleneck at the
terminal since thousands of
arriving passengers could
not get their luggage.
Workers at the Com-
munications Ministry were
the only government em-
ployes to join the strike.
Finance Minister
Simha Ehrlich said there
would be no further sub-
sidy slashes this year, but
there would be two more
within the next 12 to 15
months and they would
bring the government to
its desired goal: stabiliz-
ing subsidies at no more
than 30 percent of the
cost of these basic items.
The government an-
nounced immediate relief
payments for the poorest
Begin Will Quiet Cabinet
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin is
due to conduct separate
talks with most Cabinet
ministers on the possibility
of reorganizing the Cabinet.
The Cabinet did not dis-
cuss possible changes at its
Sunday meeting, and it
seems that the decision to
let Begin "feel out" the
scene was the formula
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sections of the populace —
those living on welfare and
national insurance pay-
ments. Ehrlich also said
there would also be a special
cost-of-living increment
paid to all salaried and
wage-earning people next
month — in advance of the
scheduled October pay-
ment.
Histadrut Secretary Gen-
eral Yeruham Meshel
claimed that the new eco-
nomic steps would turn
hundreds of thousands of
workers into welfare cases
because they would no
longer be able to make ends
meet.
The government's move
was welcomed in economic
circles and by the Manufac-
turers Association — on
condition that it was to be
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agreed by all ministers in
order to avoid personal
clashes.
It was the first Cabinet
session headed by the Pre-
mier since his hospitaliza-
tion. Begin was absent from
the Cabinet conference
room for three weeks.
Begin suggested that
the ministers "open a
new leaf in their relations
and in the manner the
Cabinet is functioning."
Begin noted that the gov-
ernment had received
from the people a man-,
date to rule four years.
"We have two years and
three months of work
ahead of us," he said. "We
shall not give up this
mandate even for one
day," he said, ruling out
the possibility of early
elections.
Begin declared that from
now on the Cabinet would
discuss only substantial is-
sues, and not personal dif-
ferences between ministers
and irrelevant opposing
views by the various minis-
tries.
It was agreed that minis-
ters will try to work out
their differences in meet-
ings among themselves.
Only after they fail to reach
an agreement will they
bring the matter up before
the premier or his deputy.
It was further agreed that
only if the premier failed to
bring about an agreement
between disputing minis-
ters would the entire matter
come up for a general de-
bate.
When Begin arrived at
the Cabinet meeting he
was toasted with wine in
honor of his recovery.
Also present was Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan
who underwent surgery
Saturday for an injury to
his left vocal chord.
Dayan's doctors said that
the vocal chord, which was
damaged in. 1968 when
Dayan was trapped in an
archeological excavation
and seriously injured, was
irritated during his recent
operation for cancer of the
intetinal tract.
money which has no cover.
Ehrlich pledged that it in-
deed was.
He told an interviewer
that the Cabinet would
shortly be presented with
Treasury plans for an addi-
tional cut of IL 3 billion
($115 million) in the state
budget (although
economists have been urg-
ing a slash of IL 4 or 5 bil-
lion).
Ehrlich also revealed
that Premier Menahem
Begin proposed to sell
government-owned land
to private developers and
thereby achieve two go-
als: raise funds for the
public coffers and reduce
the spiralling price of
apartments. Ehrlich said
the premier's proposal
would come this week or
next.
Some examples of the
price hikes are: a "regular"
brown bread, up from IL
2.59 (10 cents) to IL 3.50 (13
cents); a halla, from IL 3 to
IL 4.80; sliced white bread,
from IL 4.50 to IL 7.80; a
litre of milk, from IL 5.10 to
IL 7.60; a bottle of oil, from
IL 8.30 to IL 12.50; cottage
cheese, from IL 5.30 to IL
8.5; and frozen chicken,
from IL 40 per kilo to IL 58.
Treasury experts said the
rises would produce a 3.5
percent increase in the cost
of living. But independent
experts put the figure con-
siderably higher.
A television team worked
out that the subsidy slashe
would cost an average far,
ily, which buys one bread,
one chicken, one cottage
cheese and one litre of milk
each day IL 900 a month
($34).
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