A strike was declared today by more than 400 Jewish clerks and engineers employed by the post office. They are asking higher wages and better working conditions. The strikers have appealed to post office employees at Jerusalem, Haifa and other Palestinian towns to stand by, ready for a general strike, if the demands are not met.
This afternoon 300 postal and telegraph workers in Jaffa and workers of the power plant at Rehovoth also went out on strike. Telephone workers and operators are also expected to join the strike in Tel Aviv and Jaffa if the government does not yield to the demand of post office employees.
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