Two British trade union leaders met today with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Labor Minister Yigal Alon and other Israeli leaders during a three-day visit to Israel. They were Frank Cousins, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, and Fred Hayday, chairman of the Trade Union International Committee, They came here as a two-man delegation of the British Trade Unions.
They met also with Aharon Becker, secretary general of the Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, and with Foreign Minister Abba Eban, with whom they discussed various problems stemming from the new situation in the Middle East since the June war. The labor leaders also visited the Golan Heights in occupied Syria and the west bank.
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