With 87 election points still to be heard from the total Zionost vote in the election for American delegates to the World Zionist Congress at Prague next month Friday stood at 19,881 votes for the five parties that participated. The United Labor Party ticket was still far in the lead with a total vote of 9,240. The General Zionist coalition ticket was second with 5,338 votes. The Mizrachi were third with 3,983 votes counted, and the Revisionist and Democratic Revisionists had respectively 920 and 410 votes.
Although 4,000 more votes were expected to be counted before the results would be officially certified at the meeting of the Shekolim Board, Monday night, it became clear that the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress at Prague would consist of fourteen delegates representing the United Labor Party, ten representatives of the General Zionist coalition, five Mizrachi delegates and one Revisionist representative.
According to Morris Margulies, secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, the United States delegation to the Congress would positively consist of at least thirty delegates. The money for the
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