Before leaving Geneva on his way back to Poland, Lech Waleska, the Solidarity leader told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he had received from the Histadrut delegate to the International Labor Conference an invitation to visit Israel. He added, “I was happy to receive this invitation but right now I have a lot of work to do at home and cannot travel to Israel but at a later date I shall do so.”
He also said that he had had a long meeting with U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who had invited him to the U.S. This visit also will have to wait some time, Waleska said. He also said, “I am for cooperation with the trade union in Israel.”
He also declared that he favored a collaboration between Poland, Israel and the United States. He added that Poland had cheap labor and minerals, such as copper and charcoal and petrol, but “we do not have the means and know how to develop and transport them. Thus a collaboration with Israel, us and Japan may be very profitable.”
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