Premier Levi Eshkol’s Government encountered new opposition today from two of the coalition parties over its partial freeze on wages for 1967.
Achdut Avodah, which is in alignment with Mapai as the dominant element in the Government, and the leftist Mapam joined with leaders of the Histadrut, the Israel labor federation, in insisting on payment of a previously scheduled five percent wage increase for industrial workers. The two parties also have resumed pressure for a compulsory loan or for new taxes in the battle against Israel’s mounting unemployment.
The two parties also criticized Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir for his announced plan to dismiss some 1,500 civil servants in the Government’s retrenchment program. Mapam sources claimed they had been given assurances that Histadrut officials would “stand up for the rights of the workers.”
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