So great was the crowd at the opening meeting of the United Labor party yesterday that a number of people fainted in the crush at the “Beit Haam” (People’s Forum). Among the guests at the opening were Miss Henrietta Szold and Mayor Dizengoff of Tel Aviv.
Congratulatory messages were received from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, M. M. Ussishkin, Chaim Bialik, Pinchas Rutenberg, the Keren Hayesod, the Socialist International at Zurich, the British Labor Party, Leon Blum, French Socialist, Emil Vandervelde, Belgian Socialist, Daniel Hopkin, George Lansbury, the Halutz Organization, Poale Zion, Hitachduth, National Workers’ Alliance of America, Kaplansky, Joseph Schlossberg, Locker and Abraham Shiplacoff.
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