A resolution urging Israel and the Arab states to settle their differences by negotiating a disarmament pact based on inspection and controls was approved yesterday by the AFL-CIO convention.
The resolution also reaffirmed the support of the labor movement for the principle of freedom of navigation for all nations in the Suez Canal. It also expressed support of measures “to enable the Arab refugees to be re-integrated as productive citizens in the lands where there is room and opportunity for them to settle.”
President George Meany announced at the convention that the AFL-CIO would continue to support the Afro-Asian Institute of the Histadrut in Tel Aviv on the same basis as last year, when the labor movement made available 60 scholarships valued at $180,000. Recipients were students from 19 Afro-Asian countries who came to Israel to study.
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