Equal rights for pritate industry and cooperative enterprises in Israel was demanded here last night at a meeting of General Zionists at which a fund-raising campaign was launchod to ensure the future of the party, which now has 20,000 members.
Dr. Fritz Bernstein, leader of the General Zionist Party, charged that the cooperatives had “monopolized” all branches of trade in Israel. Any bill aiming to encourage capital investments from abrcad would remain inoperative, unless investors abrcad receive assurances of equal opportunities, he stated.
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