More than 3,000 persons participated in a demonstration here last night protesting the action of the Israeli police against the striking seamen in Haifa during the last few days. The demonstrators were addressed by Israel Galili, leader of the Mapam, who was one of Israel’s military chiefs during the war of liberation. The demonstration dispersed quietly.
The Histadrut, Israel’s Federation of Labor, today issued a statement hailing the action of the police and condemning the strikers who last Friday rejected police orders to leave two freighters, and precipitated clashes during the week-end in which 55 policemen and scores of strikers were injured. The Histadrut statement termed the seamen’s action “provocative.”
The striking seamen sent a cable last night to Dr. Rabbi Hillel Silver, American Zionist leader, declaring that government intervention would end the conflict, but that the Histadrut–which the cable describes as “a shadow government” prevents conciliation.
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