35,000 Labor Union Members in New York Halt Work to Attend Palestine Protest Rally

Some 35,000 workers affiliated with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union today quit work at 3 p.m. to attend a mass rally to protest the failure of the United Nations to protect the new Jewish state ### Palestine.

The workers, members of many races, nationalities and faiths, gathered in ##e streets of the garment district and marched to the Manhattan Center where the ##otest meeting was held. The Center could hold only a small part of the marchers ###d an amplifying system was set up so that those who could not enter the audotorium would hear the speeches.

Among the speakers, who called for a lifting of the U.S. arms embargo on Palestine, the dispatch of an international force to Palestine to implement partition and denounced the U.N.’s “policy of passivity,” were: Sens. Robert F. Wagner of New York, and Elbert Thomas of Utah; Herbert H. Lehman, former Governor of New York; David Dubinsky, president of the ILGWU; Newbold Morris, chairman of the New York city Planning Commission; Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the United Palestine appeal; Goldie Meirson of the Jewish Agency; and Israel Feinberg, general manager of the Joint Board of Cloak, Suits, Skirt and Reefer Makers’ Unions of the ILGWU, which sponsored the rally.

$1.135,000 RAISED FOR HISTADRUTH AT NEW YORK LABOR PARLEY

More than $1,135,000 was collected here last night for the Histadruth at in emergency session of the National Committee for Labor Palestine, it was disclosed today.

The sum exceeded the goal of $1,000,000 set by the organization for this phase of its drive. The total goal of the 1948 campaign is $7,500,000, of which more than $2,000,000 has already been raised. Some 2,000 representatives of Zionist, labor, civic, fraternal, women’s and youth groups attended the parley.