Andre Bergeron, secretary general of the Confederation du Travail – Force Ouvriere, one of the three French labor federations, expressed disagreement yesterday with the government’s policy in the Middle East. In a telegram to the Jewish Labor Committee in the United States, M. Bergeron stated: “It is not necessary for me to inform you that like millions of Frenchmen– as confirmed by recent polls–I do not approve of French government policy in the dramatic Middle East conflict. Recently, at the Histadrut congress in Tel Aviv, I declared the Force Ouvriere cherishes the friendship that binds us to the workers of Israel, to that great trade union organization, and how opposed we are to steps that will aggravate the dangerous tension in the Middle East, which are prejudicial to the only democratic country in that region of the world.” French Middle East policy will again come before the national committee of Force Ouvriere when it meets in April.
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