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MAY 27. 1988 21297 Hilltop St., Southfield 48034 354-4490 9 A.M.-5 P.M. MON.-SAT. Hand-In-Hand Continued from preceding page unionists participated in the December rally, with representatives from 27 inter- national unions, central labor bodies and labor-affiliated groups. On March 29, Patrick J. Nilan, legislative director of the American Postal Workers Union, testified before a con- gressional subcommittee on obstruction of mail in the Soviet Union. In his testimony, he stressed the postal union's opposition to the "consistent and deliberate non-delivery or obstruction of delivery of mail from abroad to certain citizens of the Soviet Union, notably Soviet Jews and others who have ex- pressed a desire to emigrate." And earlier this month in Kansas City, local union workers distributed leaflets outside the Soviet Cultural Exhibit. The trade unionists took over the vigil on Shabbat for members of the Jewish community. T he labor movement's support for a Jewish state began more than 70 years ago. As early as 1917, the AFL passed a resolution in favor of a Jewish state at its convention in New York. By the 1940s, the labor movement became even more vocal in this support — a move Professor Kenneth Waltzer of Michigan State University said is due in part to the progressive nature of unions. The establishment of Israel, he said, was seen as a progressive act. The trade unions were "part of a broad coalition that also included liberals, Jews and liberal Christians who put pressure on the govern- ment," to establish a Jewish state, said Waltzer, who is writing an essay on American Jewish labor and the Holocaust. "Truman listened carefully to those elements, but whether or not what they had to say was crucial is hard to tell." Since then, labor's support of Israel has been noteworthy for the pro-Israel statements it has issued, and the pro- Israel projects in which it has been involved. For example, labor leaders are actively involved in the JLC-sponsored Labor for a Secure Israel Program, which helps muster political support for Israel in states with small Jewish populations. Last summer, Labor for a Secure Israel director Pat Porter spoke to union leaders at the 31st annual Rocky Mountain Labor School. The event attracted trade unionists from Arizona, Col- orado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Porter urged the continued support of labor's pro-Israel program and discussed the "adopt a refusenik" program. Another example of labor support for Israel occurred during the Yom Kippur War, when the U.S. government's withholding of military aid caused tremendous tension between the Nixon ad- ministration and the Israeli government. At that time, AFL-CIO President George Meany invited Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to speak before a gathering of labor officials. That same year, 1973, the AFL-CIO offered emergency aid to Israel, as it has during every other war in which Israel was involved. In another troubled time between the U.S. and Israeli governments — Israel's inva- sion of Lebanon — the AFL- CIO voiced public support for the move and sent three delegates, including Kirkland, to Israel. This was one occasion when some of the rank and file in the labor movement reported- ly were disgruntled with Israel. Yet this was not ap- parent in the very pro-Israel statement issued by the AFL- CIO not long after the delega- tion's return from the Jewish state. The AFL-CIO maintains "Labor is still supportive, there's no doubt about that. But there's no question that forces in the Arab community, and some radical left- wing groups as well, are trying to destroy the trade unions' support for Israel." particularly close ties with its Israeli counterpart, the Histadrut. One of the American labor federation's goals, listed in its constitution, is "to aid, assist and cooperate with free and democratic labor movements throughout the world." Yet the Histadrut seems to have been singled out as a special case. Representatives of the Israeli labor confedera- tion even consulted with the AFL-CIO on the Bal Harbour statement.