Positions hardened today in the six-week old high school teachers’ strike as a new wave of walkouts by airport employes and courthouse workers threatened. Education Minister Yigal Allon and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir declared that the government would make no more concessions to the teachers. The government’s last offer was rejected by the high school teachers last week and they are trying to persuade elementary school teachers to join their strike. The Cabinet decided yesterday to meet in emergency session this week, possibly to draft legislation to break the teachers’ strike. But there appeared to be little chance to avert a 24 hour “warning strike” called for tomorrow morning by some 800 airport administrative employes and flight control officers demanding higher wages. The strike would halt all domestic and overseas flights. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Foreign Minister Abba Eban might leave for London tonight instead of tomorrow as originally scheduled in order to avoid being grounded by the strike. Court clerks and administrative employes in courthouses all over the country also threatened to strike in support of wage demands. Postal workers are still engaged in a work slow-down which is delaying mail deliveries.
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