Government authorities today took action against protest meetings held in Petach Tikvah, Rehoboth, Herzliah and Kfar Saba where feeling is running strongly against Palestine’s restrictive immigration policies. Most of the meetings were dispersed.
Persons engaged in staging demonstrations were told that five days’ notice are required by police before permission is granted.
The Municipal Council of Tel Aviv, meeting in extraordinary session today, went on record as being very much up in arms against governmental immigration policies. The Revisionist members of the Municipality urged that a general country-wide strike be declared, and asked for action that will boycott use of post offices, telegraphs and railway services. Some of the more drastic members of the faction proposed that taxpayers refrain from paying their dues. The latter proposal had the support of Shoshana Persitz, member of the Municipal Executive of the General Zionist Organization.
A restraining note was sounded by the labor federation, Histadruth, whose membership successfully pushed a proposal that will submit the question of the strike to the Jewish Agency for Palestine, governing body for the Jews. A subcommittee will be appointed in this connection.
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