A sum of 10,000 dollars in cash and 40,000 dollars in pledges were raised by different labour organisations at the Seventh Annual Convention of the American National Labour Party for the Jewish Workers in Palestine, which concluded here to-day, after being in session for three days. The Convention decided to create a Central Labour Investment Corporation in America to aid Palestine labour enterprises.
A delegation of the Histadruth, the General Federation of Jewish Labour in Palestine, consisting of Mr. Zalman Rubashov, co-editor of the Palestine Labour daily “Davar”, Mr. Simon Kushnir, fournder of the colony Kfar Yeheskal, and leader of the Palestine Agricultural Organisation, and Mrs. Goldie Meyerson, one of the Palestine women workers’ leaders, arrived specially in order to be present at the Convention.
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