The Haganah has drawn up an effective program to combate extremist activities in Palestine, but is holding it in abeyance pending a British Decision on the ultimate fate of the 4,500 Exodus refugees, a Haganah spokesman to## told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The plan calls for the cutting off of funds to the Irgun treasury, particularly ## sympathetic factory owners; the factories will be boycotted and picketed by trade ## and, as last resort, workers will be called upon to quit jobs in factories owned by extremist sympathizers. Workers with confirmed extremist symapthies will be dissmissed from jobs controlled by the Histadruth.
In addition, members of underground organizations and their active sympathizers will be evicted from homes which are under Wistadruth control. Arms caches will be transported and destroyed and landmines placed by Irgunists and Sternists will be dismantled ## they are found. Finally, protection will be supplied Jews who are intimidated by the underground–even to the extent of using force against the extremists.
The Haganah spokesman declared that if reports that the Exodus Jews will be transported from France to Hamburg, in the British zone of Germany, prove true, it will be considerably more difficult for our people to keep their conviction that terrism is an irresponsible, mistaken policy.” He pointed out that if the British excess to send the refugees “back to the hell from which they came” the Haganah could ## stop the extremists.
A Jewish Agency spokesman, commenting on the reports of the transfer of the Exodus Jews to Hamburg, declared: “We cannot foretell what will happen when the refugees learn that they are to be taken to the graveyard of their families. Such an in human act will not lessen the tension in Palestine nor help to fight extremism.”
He also denied rumors that a file of documents had been discovered in the Agency office linking Dr. Moshe Sneh, member of the Agency executive, with the extremists.
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