The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, announced the establishment of a scholarship fund in the amount of $2,000 set up by the board of directors of the Sidney Hillman Foundation in New York. The late Mr. Hillman, who died in 1946, was for many years president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union in the U.S. and one of America’s leading labor leaders.
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