The committee appointed by the Jewish Agency to arbitrate the dispute between the Histadruth and the Revisionist National Workers Union has struck a snag, it was learned today.
The dispute, which resulted in a pitched battle between the rival groups last Friday, in which 80 were injured and more than $10,000 worth of damage done, arose when the owners of two knitting mills at Petach Tikvah signed a contract with the National Workers Union providing that at least 60 percent of the employees must be Revisionists.
The Histadruth is now insisting that the issue is between it and the Industrialists Association alone and that the National Workers organization is not a party to the dispute or the arbitration proceedings. On the other hand, the Revisionists declare that unless they are permitted to participate in the special committee’s hearings, they will not abide by its award.
Meanwhile, the Industrialists Association has issued a statement declaring that several plants have been set up in Petach Tikvah and that it has signed agreements with the Revisionists union based on local labor conditions. The Hashomer Hatzair newspaper Mishmar, however, charges that the contracts between the Revisionists and the owners were an “unholy alliance” between the Revisionists and the Industrialists Association aimed at weakening the Histadruth.
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