14 Jewish workers who went on strike in an orange grove owned by Spiro and Getzler in the Jewish colony of Petach Tikvah have been fined £3. each on a charge of illegal assembly, and will go to prison for 30 days if they do not pay.
Eight others were arrested at the time, but were immediately released.
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