Aout 3,000 Mapam sympathizers this week-end demonstrated against the Israel Government’s new economic policy and assailed Israel’s alleged subservience to the United States. The demonstration was preceded by a three-hour “warning strike.”
The strike and demonstration, called by the Mapam Party and Communists, was denounced by the Histadrut, the Israel labor federation, as sabotage of the labor movement and misuse of the strike weapon. The Histadrut threatened participants in the strike with dismissal from their jobs.
The strikers marched in a two-mile procession through the streets of Tel Aviv bearing placards denouncing the government and critical of the United States. Women waving empty shopping bags, in protest against the food situation, were prominent in the line of march.
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