An Arab labor conference, the first attempt to organize Arab labor in Palestine, opened here yesterday. Although the Jewish Labor Council of Haifa distributed pamphlets containing articles on labor organization questions designed to assist the Arabs in their organization, representatives of the Jewish press were barred from the conference. The new organization aims to unionize the Arab workers in the Athlit quarries.
Arab laborers in the Nur match factory at Acre have written a letter to the Arab paper, “Felestin,” complaining that the Arab boycott against the Jewish match manufacturers is injurious to the Arab workers. The “Felestin” replied comfortingly that “there would soon be a native match factory.”
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