More than 10,000 men, women and youths marched in Tel Aviv’s May Day parade. Starting out as three separate parades, the Histadrut, Mapam and Communist columns joined at the end.
The largest column was headed by Histadrut officials and members of the Tel Aviv Labor Council and included a contingent of 500 Arabs from Jaffa and nearby villages. Members of leftist and labor youth organizations marched with representatives of the various Histadrut institutions. The labor federation’s sick fund personnel participated in the parade with ambulances and other vehicles while the Histadrut construction cooperative Solel Boneh was represented by workers and by heavy technical equipment such as bulldozers and steam shovels.
Mapam marchers carried banners calling for the unity of all workers, while the Communist political banners chiefly featured the word “peace” in many languages, including the Korean. Communist marchers shouted slogans denouncing Bruce McDaniel, American aid coordinator in Israel, and “American intervention.”
All newspapers, except the Herut’s newspaper “Herut” and the Mizrachi paper “Hatzofe,” were closed today. Parades and celebrations also took place in many of the smaller towns and villages throughout the country.
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