Representatives of Israel’s striking high school teachers union emerged from a meeting with Premier Golda Meir today apparently determined to continue their month-long walkout despite exhortations from government officials to end it. A teachers’ spokesman said the meeting had “changed nothing.” Mrs. Meir reportedly told the strikers that their wage demands would cost the country $49 million which it could not afford. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who doubles as Minister of Education, angrily denounced the strikers in the Knesset today. He accused them of trying to dictate terms to the government on the assumption that they were “holding priceless pawns because, after all, what is more precious to us than our children?” Meanwhile an organization of parents of high school pupils has called for a mass demonstration outside the Knesset building tomorrow to get the government to end the strike.
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