A call on all labor parties in Israel to unite on a common platform in the next general elections, scheduled for November, was voiced today by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion.
The Premier voiced the call at kibbutz Einat, near Petach Tikvah, where 1,000 leaders of the Mapai Party convened for an all-day meeting to draft the Mapai policy for coming elections in the Histadrut Israel’s labor federation. The Histadrut elections will precede the nation’s general elections.
A five-point program for Mapai was spelled out by Histadrut’s general secretary, Pinhas Lavon. The program calls for, 1. Opposition to mass dismissals of workers; 2. Linking of wages to productivity but adapting wage-scales in general to conditions prevailing in various industries; 3. Establishment of a national union of industrial workers; 4. Turning over Histadrut’s health service, Kupath Cholim, to the Government; 5. Drawing up of a plan for care of the aged.
Mrs. Golda Meir, the Foreign Minister, told the delegates at the meeting that Israel’s achievements in the field of foreign relations “are sometimes esteemed more by foreigners than they are by Israelis.”
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