Threatening to go on a hunger strike as a final resort in their efforts to obtain thirteen months salary due them, sixty employees of the Bicur Cholim hospital here called upon Chief Rabbi A. I. Hacohen Kook, president of the hospital, last night.
The institution, in financial straits, has been closed for five weeks, causing great hardship to Jewish sick in the city.
Forty families of the employed, involving 150 individuals, declared that they are facing starvation.
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