Labor will dominate the World Zionist Congress at Prague later this month and will be, to a large extent, responsible for the proceedings, David Ben-Gurion, Palestine labor leader, declared in an interview here with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Internal questions will bulk large on the Congress agenda, he asserted, as methods of strengthening and consolidating the organization would have to be met.
“The election results in the most important countries, Poland, Palestine and America, make it clear,” he said, “that Labor will be the largest group in the next Zionist Congress, which will make us to a large extent responsible for the proceedings, The Congress will, to a larger extent than previously, have to dedicate itself to the internal questions of the Zionist movement. The Zionist Organization will have to be strengthened and consolidated. Vigorous measures will have to be taken to tighten up discipline, and increase its moral and political prestige. An earnest inquiry will have to be made in regard to certain groups to establish how far their behavior can be reconciled with membership in the Zionist Organization.
“We want to include all parties, except the Revisionists, in a coalition government. We shall under no, circumstances collaborate with a party of strike-breakers and anti-Labor agitators,” he declared.
“The question of the next president of the Zionist Organization is one,” Mr. Ben-Gurion added, “which it is premature to discuss now. To us, the chief question is not the man, but the program, and his chances of carrying it out,”
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