One thousand trade unionists, attending a dinner on behalf of Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation here, paid tribute to S. Frank Raftery, international president of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America and contributed $450,000 to establish an Israeli rest home in his name at Kfar Blum, in upper Galilee. Senator Ernest Gruening, of Alaska, was the principal speaker. Other speakers were Joseph D. Keenan, secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO, Israel Consul Avraham Avidar and Zeev Barash, American representative of Histadrut.
At a session here yesterday, the 44th annual conference of the Israel Histadrut campaign adopted a $600,000 goal for 1968. The 550 delegates undertook to raise $400,000 in cash and $200,000 in long-term commitments for the American Histadrut Foundation. Harry Lasky, head of a special committee, proposed sponsorship of 1,000 scholarships for Israeli students in agricultural and technical schools under Histadrut auspices. Mr. Lasky pledged $30,000 for this purpose. Dr. Sol Stein, national director of the National Committee for Labor Israel, was the principal speaker at the conference.
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