An international loan to finance the immigration into Palestine of 1,000,000 Jews from Europe, irrespective of whether or not they are Zionists, was demanded today by David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency, addressing the Histadruth conference meeting here. He suggested that a “United Halutz Organization” be established in Europe to organize the mass emigration.
Discussing the internal situation in the Histadruth, Ben-Gurion called for the establishment of country-wide trade unions affiliated with the Histadruth, which would become a central coordinating body. He also urged that elections of the labor federation’s officers be on an individual rather than a party basis in the future, and stressed that the Histadruth must embrace all workers, regardless of party affiliation, The creation of national unions was attacked by a spokesman for the opposition which favors retention of the present organizational set-up.
Reporting on the Histadruth’s achievements in the past three years, David Romez, secretary of the federation, said that it has established 51 agricultural settlements, contributed thirty-five percent of the War Needs Fund, and sent 18,000 members into the armed forces. During that period the number of industrial workers enrolled in the Histadruth rose from 25,000 to 50,000.
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