The Mapai, largest pro-Government party in Israel, today urged the government to introduce a special tax for the purpose of financing a program of settling Israel’s unemployed on the land. A resolution to this effect was adopted at today’s concluding session of the four-day meeting of the National Council of the Mapai Party.
Labor Minister Golda Myerson, who left afterwards for the United States to head Israel’s U.N. delegation when the question of Soviet anti-Semitism is discussed by that body, emphasized the need to combat the growing unemployment and pointed out that efforts are under way to settle immigrant families on the land. The government, she added, needs a special fund for this agricultural settlement program. She revealed that the Knesset will soon be asked to approve an unemployment tax to make possible implementation of this project.
(A Haifa dispatch said that jobless demonstrators in that industrial area raided the Histadrut offices and attacked Histadrut officials, causing some damage to the offices. Later, 250 unemployed blocked highways and interfered with the flow of traffic. Police who tried to restore order were attacked by the jobless, and two persons were injured.)
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