The headquarters of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists issued a statement today to the press denying the allegation that its members in Palestine had been guilty of strike breaking, particularly in connection with the clashes at the Frumin Biscuit Factory in Jerusalem.
The workers not affiliated with the Histadruth, Palestine Labor Federation, simply ask the right to work should not be monopolized by Socialists, the statement says.
The Revisionists insist that employment be allocated through impartial labor exchanges under the control of the municipalities or the Palestine Jewish National Council and that compulsory arbitration, to prevent strikes, be introduced.
The Revisionists charge that the Histadruth organized physical assaults. These terrorist methods, however, have not weakened the Jewish workers in their endeavor to introduce new methods in labor distribution.
The Revisionist statement also deals at length with the proposed income tax in Palestine. It asserts that the Jewish Agency is negotiating with the government in this connection. It has agreed in principle to an income tax, provided co-operatives are excluded, although any attempt to collect an income tax from Arabs is farcical.
The Revisionists also take this occasion to charge a London circle closely aligned with Dr. Chaim Weizmann with conducting propaganda against the Revisionists in connection with the disciplining of members of the Revisionist Union which has been recognized as a separate Union by the Actions Committee.
They assert that this group is aiming at the reinstatement of Weizmann as the world Zionist leader, and would exclude the Revisionists from the Zionist Organization in order to facilitate Weizmann’s return.
The statement warns against “the introduction of an inquisition of conscience in the Zionist movement.”
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