Several hundred Communists demonstrated again last night in Tel Aviv protesting alleged government discrimination against Communist residents of agricultural settlements. Steel-helmeted police units remained on the alert throughout the domonstration.
Meanwhile, Communists on a sit-down strike in the office of the Histadrut’s agricultural department here today entered the fifth day of a hunger strike. They are protesting alleged discrimination directed against them as Communists in the agricultural settlements in which they live.
Yesterday they received a proposal from the Agricultural Workers Union which promised that they would be aided in establishing an all-Communist settlement movement. Until such a settlement could be started, the strikers were asked to return to their settlements where, they were told, they would continue to enjoy equal rights and receive communal services.
The strikers, who have partaken of nothing but water since they began their protest, refused to leave the office. They insisted on remaining in their present settlements, arguing that they do not want to be separated from members of their families who might wish to remain in the colonies where they have been living for a number of years.
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