A joint meeting of Jewish and Arab employes and employers of show factories was held here today to protest against the opening of a retail show shop handling German made shoes. In view of the window-smashing that occurred last week when the store opened, additional police precautions were taken.
Everyone passing the store today was handed a tag printed in Hebrew and Arabic saying “down with foreign products, long live local products.” The tags are reminiscent of, yet contrasting favorably with, the tags used by the Arabs during their boycott of Jewish products which read “down with Jewish products, long live Arab products.”
Observers here see considerable significance in this economic cooperation between Jews and Arabs which follows on the heels of negotiations between Arab and Jewish newspaper publishers to combat the government’s press policy.
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