The union of the American Poale Zion party and the Hitachduth Zeire Zion has been approved by the Poale Zion world conference recently held in Vienna, according to a cablegram just received here at the headquarters of the American Poale Zion. The Poale Zion world conference also adopted a resolution favoring a union of the two Jewish labor parties throughout the world.
Last March a referendum among the members of the two parties in this country approved the union. A united Poale Zion-Hitachduth convention will be held in this country during the middle of October. Philadelphia, where the Poale Zion movement in this country was founded, was selected as the convention city.
The Poale Zion party in this country was founded in 1904. In 1907 a world federation of all Poale Zion parties was established at a conference in The Hague, Holland. The Hitachduth, which was founded in 1920, favors a Socialist Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, although it opposes the Marxian class struggle idea. The Poale-Zion and Hitachduth parties in Palestine itself united into one Jewish Labor Party in 1929.
Among the leaders of the Poale Zion-Hitachduth movement are Berl Locker in America (now a member of the Zionist World Executive), David Ben Gurion, I. Ben-Zevi, Berel Katzenelson, Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff (now head of the Zionist Executive in Palestine) and Joseph Sprinzak, all in Palestine.
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