Strong condemnation of clashes such as that between Zionist Revisionist and Laborite groups in Haifa on October 18 and of that disturbance was voiced today by the Jewish Agency for Palestine and by the Mapay (Jewish Labor party).
The Jewish Agency declared itself “outraged by the brutal attack which continues the chain of outbreaks tarnishing the name of the Yishuv and of Zionism and poisoning the atmosphere of Palestine.”
VIOLENCE UNJUSTIFIED
“No amount of indignation against the Revisionist attitude on the Jewish labor issue in Haifa justifies violence against a meeting in a closed hall,” the Agency stated. It characterized the use of violence as a menace to free speech.
“Such actions only serve to strengthen Revisionism and to weaken the Histadruth (Jewish Labor Federation),” the Mapay statement asserted. “The fact that Revisionists have attacked meetings and individuals in Palestine as well as abroad does not constitute a defense for the Histadruth members who engage in similar actions,” the statement warned.
POINTS TO LONDON PARLEYS
The party’s executive is all the more grieved at the incident, the Agency said, because at the very moment parleys were proceeding at London in the hope that civilized conditions for the settling of internal controversy might be established for the Zionist movement.
Firm resolution to use every measure at its disposal and all its influence to prevent the recurrence of violence in public life and to safeguard the freedom of discussion, described as an invaluable
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