A four-man Histadruth delegation now on a tour of the United States to raise $10,000,000 this week-end called on William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Philip Murray, head of the C.I.O.
The delegation includes Abraham Haft, head of the Defense Council of Israel’s 300 agricultural settlements, who helped bring the first shipload of visaless European refugees to Palestine during the Nazi regime, Mrs. Yehudith Ginsburg, number of the military government council of Jerusalem and head of the 4,000-member Nurses Federation, Capt. Abraham Arest, director of the “Voice of Jerusalem” radio station and Capt. Yaakov Wayland, former military commander of Negba.
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