Israel’s labor should “respond rationally and in friendly manner to the outstretched hand of the 6,500,000 West German workers,” Zeev Hering, the new head of the International Affairs Department of Histadrut, Israel’s federation of labor, declared here today.
Mr. Hering made that statement upon his return from Brussels, where he had attended a meeting of the executive bureau of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. He met leaders of the West German Confederation of Labor during the Brussels meeting. “We must decide,” he said, “whether to put these relations (between Israeli and German workers) on a reciprocal basis — or not to have them at all. I hope we will choose the former. After years of enjoying their support, we have to make such a friendly gesture.”
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