First Strike Launched at Tel Aviv Harbor

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November 9, 1936

TEL AVIV (Nov. 8)

The first strike since the temporary port at this all-Jewish city was inaugurated last May occurred today over a controversy between contractors and workers who are not members of the Histadruth, the Jewish federation of labor in Palestine.

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