Pinchas Lavon, secretary general of the Histadrut, called yesterday for early action by the labor movement against the Israeli Communists. Mr, Lavon characterized the Communists as “a cancer which aims to undermine the state and bring about rebellion among the Arab minority.”
Addressing the same meeting of the Histadrut executive, Reuven Barakat, head of the labor organization’s political department, put forth a formal motion for expulsion from the Histadrut’s Arab division of the Mapam unit which held a separate May Day parade in Nazareth.
(In Paris, the French Communist Party sent a message of solidarity to the Israeli Communists who clashed with the police in Nazareth on May Day. The message, sent over the objections of a number of prominent French Jewish Communists, was signed by Jacques Duclos, secretary general of the French party. It assured the Israeli Communists that their French sympathizers would do their “utmost” to “assure the liberation” of the arrested party members.)
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