The city of Tel Aviv faced the possibility today of being left without a single Jewish policeman when a number of Jewish police officers resigned from the force and others notified the city that they would hand in their resignations if their salaries are not raised.
A general strike of Jewish teachers is also pending here. Both the policemen and the teachers complain that the wages they are now receiving are not sufficient to meet the cost of living which has risen during the last two years.
THREATEN SCHOOL WALK-OUT
All Jewish candidates for policemen in the Jerusalem police school have also served notice that they would leave the school if no way is found to guarantee them decent salaries.
The present average salary of a policeman is $35 a month, as compared with the minimum of $120 a month which an unskilled worker in the building industry is making in Palestine.
Central Jewish organizations here are seriously concerned about the decline in the number of Jews on the police force. In this city, where the police force was originally 100 per cent Jewish, the Jewish policemen are gradually being replaced by members of the British police force, while in Jerusalem the Arabs are taking the place of Jewish policemen who have resigned.
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