Members of the opposition group in the Palestine Labor Party were officially warned today that they will be expelled from the party should they run their own slate of candidates in the forthcoming elections to the Jewish National Assembly.
The warning was given in a resolution adopted at the closing session of the conference of the Mapai, the Jewish Labor Party of Palestine. The resolution reads: “The conference considers the decision of “Group B” (the opposition) to enter the elections with a competing list as a separation from the Mapai and as the practical establishment of a new party. Every member of the Mapai who will appear on a competing list, or will support it, expels himself from the party.”
The conference also adopted a number of other resolutions regarding internal party discipline. Berl Kazelson, one of the principal leaders of the Mapai, addressing the closing session of the conference, said that “the blow sustained by the Mapai from its opposition members creates an uncertain situation within the Zionist organization,” Nevertheless, the Mapai should continue to build a strong and large labor movement, he urged.
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