Yeshoshua Levi, treasurer of the Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation, left for the United States today as head of a delegation which will participate in the 47th convention for the Histadrut campaign there. The delegation will ask friends of the Histadrut in the United States to collect $5,000,000 a year for the next five years, he stated.
Mr. Levi said the money is to be used for creation of Histadrut health and education institutions, including schools, youth centers and health centers, in immigrant settlements and development areas. The convention will open in New York City on November 25.
(In New York, Akiva Eger, director of the Afro-Asian Institute of Israel, which is maintained by Histadrut, told a press conference today that the labor colleges of India, the Philippines and Israel have entered into an agreement with the Institute for an extensive joint program of education on labor, the trade union movement and the development of cooperatives.)
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