A bronze plaque commemorating the founding of the Israel Histadrut Campaign on Feb. 14, 1924, was unveiled today at Cooper Union in New York, where the founding meeting was held 30 years ago. The plaque was unveiled by Yaffa Egert of Israel, Miss Histadrut of 1954, at a replica founding meeting attended by veteran trade unionists and Labor Zionist leaders who were present at the original meeting in 1924.
Yossef Baratz, founder of Israel’s first cooperative settlement who represented Histadrut at the founding meeting in 1924, said that Histadrut’s trade schools were striving to produce good citizens and decent human beings as well as skilled craftsmen, Joseph Schlossberg, chairman of the National Committee for Labor Israel, also spoke.
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