The five day strike of Jerusalem’s municipal employees for payment of wages due last month ended tonight when Minister Israel Rokach reached an agreement with Histadrut officials representing the municipal employees’ union.
Negotiations were undertaken at the behest of Premier David Ben Gurion after Jerusalem Mayor Abraham Kariv wired him with a demand that the city’s garrison be ordered to clean the streets. The Mayor told the Premier that his health aides had warned him that the dirty streets presented an acute danger to the city.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
