A clear majority for the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion ticket for delegates to the World Zionist Congress at Prague next month seemed likely yesterday on the basis of incomplete returns in the nation-wide ballotting which was held Sunday.
On this basis, the Laborite group would name half of the delegation to the Congress. According to cable advices from London, the United States is entitled to 17 delegates. Funds to cover Shekel payments, however, are to be transmitted to London immediately, the Zionist offices here declared yesterday, and on the basis of these payments, America will be entitled to 30-32 delegates.
Out of some 14,000 votes counted, the Laborite ticket, which was Number 2 on the ballot, was credited with 7,331. In New York, the Labor ticket received 2,083 votes out of a total of 5,374. In Cleveland, the Laborites received 251 of the 419 counted. The Labor ticket also won large majorities in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Detroit.
Z.O.A.-HADASSAH TICKET SECOND
Ticket Number One, coalition slate of the Zionist Organization of Americt, Hadassah Organization and Order Sons of Zion, received 2,804 votes throughout the country. The Mizrachi ticket, which was Number Three, received 2,582 votes. Tickets Number Five and Six, on which the Jabotinsky and the Grossman Revisionists ran, received 802 and 374 votes respectively.
Everywhere the adherents of the General Zionist Organization seem
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