The central council of Kibbutz Hameuhad–the collective settlement movement of Israel which has 30,000 members in 80 settlements–concluded a two-day convention today at Yagur with a number of resolutions opposing a suggestion voiced last week by Premier David Ben Gurion that hired labor be used in collective settlements.
The resolutions demanded an end to the hiring of labor in any of the settlements of the movement. They stressed preference for continuation of the traditional policy of employing only members of a collective settlement on the land and in the shops belonging to the settlement. At the same time, the convention decided to complete arrangements for the immediate absorption into the settlements of several hundred refugee children.
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