The sum of $1,000,000 was raised here today at a mid-winter “roll call” conference of the National Committee for Labor Israel, attended by 800 delegates from all parts of the United States. The 1955 goal of the organization, which helps support Histadrut activities in Israel, is $5,000,000.
The Egyptian hanging of two Jews two weeks ago was condemned in a resolution which called the execution “an act of barbarism with political purposes” rather than a just verdict. In another resolution, the delegates hailed the golden jubilee of the pioneering founders of the Histadrut who came to Palestine in the so-called “second aliyah” a half-century ago.
Congressman Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told the conference that objections to the shipment of American arms to the Arab states are valid and should not be dismissed lightly. He called on the National Committee for Labor Israel to continue its vigorous opposition to arms shipments to the Arab states “until there is at least peace between Israel and the Arab states.”
Louis Segal, leading Labor Zionist and member of the Jewish Agency executive, reporting on his recent trip to North Africa and Israel, assured the delegates that the anticipated immigration of 30,000 North African Jews to Israel in 1955 would be “one of the most effective life-saving operations in the history of Zionism.” The unsettled conditions in France, he declared, “will make the Jews of North Africa even more anxious to get out while they can.”
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