A demand for the abolition of all immigration restrictions was made in a resolution adopted at today’s closing session of the Histadruth Convention. The Convention, which lasted for more than a week, has attracted wide interest throughout the country.
The resolution requests that the supervision of Jewish immigration should be entrusted to the Jewish Agency. It further instructs the Executive of the Histadruth to develop an intensive political campaign in that direction.
While protesting against what it describes as a limitation of Chalutz immigration, a further resolution urges that steps should, nevertheless, be taken abroad to organize and train laborers who should be fully qualified for work in Palestine.
Among other resolutions, the Convention also decided to develop a campaign for the popularization of Palestine products abroad as well as in Palestine. Of special interest was a resolution declaring determination to oppose Jewish employers who do not employ Jewish labor in the orange-groves. The Convention uttered a strong protest against the Zionist persecutions by the Soviet authorities.
By 164 votes against the 32 of the more radical left-wing Poale-Zion and Hashomer Hazair, the Convention expressed its confidence in the Zionist Executive and approved its policy of concluding collective agreements with the employers.
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