A conference of the General Zionist labor movement today called for the removal of the Histadrut from politics and its conversion into a “pure trade union.”
Another resolution demanded that the Histadrut transfer all its public services–such as the health plan, labor exchange offices, communications service and education–to the government.
The delegates also agreed to support a single unified educational system to replace the four systems which now exist. Until a unified system is established, the General Zionist laborites said, they do not wish to pay an education tax to the Histadrut because they do not wish to support the laborite school system.
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