A call for inclusion of the State of Israel in any Middle East defense arrangement was endorsed today in resolutions of two regional conventions of powerful AFL unions, the International Association of Machinists and the Building Service Employees. The resolutions followed seminars at both conferences on the role of labor Israel in the region.
The resolutions also pledged fraternal support to the Histadrut and endorsed the work of the American Trade Union Council for Labor Israel, whose Western states director, Dr. Israel Blumenfeld, had addressed the parleys. The conventions, representing unions with a combined membership of over 300,000 workers in eleven Western states and British Columbia, also viewed an hour-long film on Israel.
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