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Raanana Colony Breaks with Agency over Labor Strife

December 27, 1935
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A clash over employment of Arab laborers by farmers in the Jewish colony of Raanana resulted in slight injuries to several persons today and the suspension for forty-eight hours of relations between the colony and the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

The village council of Raanana, which is near Tel Aviv, ascribed its action in suspending relations to the failure of the Agency to act in the strife between Jewish union farm hands and local farmers who have insisted on employing Arab laborers.

The clash today is one of a long series of incidents which have developed over the farmers’ refusal to accede to the union’s demands that they cease to employ Arab laborers. On Nov. 20, eighty Jewish farm hands were arrested for picketing.

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