“Palestine was at one time a land of prophets; now it is a land of chalutzim,” Joseph Sprinzak, labor Zionist leader now here on a visit from Palestine, said in an address before a mass meeting at the Hotel Statler which formally opened a drive for $5,000 for the Geverschaften campaign under the auspices of the American National Labor Committee for Palestine.
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