Nearly $1,000,000 in cash was turned in here today toward the $5,113,000 goal of the Israel Histadrut Campaign for 1956 at the annual Roll Call Conference of the National Committee for Labor Israel. More than 1,000 delegates from the United States and Canada attended the conference on behalf of the Israel Federation of Labor.
Resolutions adopted by the conference called upon the United States Government to employ “action to replace words toward immediate release of defensive arms to Israel and toward entering a mutual security pact with Israel. Major addresses at the conference were delivered by Dr. Joseph Burstein, member of the Lel Aviv City Council. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, of New York; Isaac Hamlin, chairman of the campaign committee Joseph Schlossberg, national chairman of the campaign; and Dr. Biegun, national secretary.
Mayor Wagner, in his address, called for American conclusion of a mutual security pace with Israel, pointing out that the United States had such agreements with 44 other countries. He disagreed with those who would deny Israel the right to run in the arms race which no one wanted but which is already under way.
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