Thousands of workers, most of them Jewish, participated in the May Day strike throughout the country yesterday. Arabs were among the speakers at meetings in some places. At Haifa railway shops, of the 150 who walked out, about 75 percent were Jews and the rest Arabs. The Arab labor organization created last January did not celebrate May Day.
The May Day proclamation issued by the Poale Zion (Radical Zionist) contains, among other things, a call for a brotherhood of Arab and Jewish workers and the establishment of a workers’ and peasants’ government in Palestine. In Tel Aviv the extreme left labor leaders organized a torchlight procession which was dispersed by the police. Generally the country was quiet.
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