Premier Levi Eshkol refused today a request from a delegation of Israeli industrialists and builders associations representatives for a wage freeze in 1967. The industrialists asked for the meeting after receiving a demand from the Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation, for a five percent wage increase for most production workers. The industrialists said they could not absorb such an increase because of Israel’s current economic slump.
At the meeting with the industrialists, the Premier promised, however, that the Cabinet would see to it that production costs would not rise if industries absorbed workers who are now jobless if they were given jobs in factories producing for export. The Histadrut also has demanded a four percent increment in cost-of-living allowances, both demands to be effective January 1.
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