The closing session of the Workmen’s Circle convention here last night hailed the establishment of Israel and appealed to the United States to follow its recognition of the infant state by revoking the Palestine arms embargo. Ephim H. Jeshurin was re-elected national president of the organization, which is the largest Jewish fraternal labor group in the United States.
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