The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-07
BY ]. B. (Jerusalem).

According to the report of its
Executive Committee, the General
Jewish Labor Organization" (Hista-
druth) has about $4,000 members.
Such a large number of organized
workers would, in view Of the small
ness of the population Of Palestine
and the weak development Of capital
ism in that country itself and in the
neighboring countries, signify ali al
most invincible power, If this organ
ization really represented workers
employed in big industry and If it de-
Tended the class interests Of The
workers. But as a matter OF fact
over a third of the members Of the
Histadruth are workers who have
only recently immigrated from vari-
Gus European countries, are entirely
without work and are living IN tie
support provided by the Zionist or
ganization Give shillings per head
per week. another third Of the mem
bers belong to the co-operatiyes fl
nanced by the Zionist organizations,
and only a small number of the
Histadruth members are actual wage
earners, the greater part in small I'M
dertakings or in the Jewish agricul-
tural colonies.
In addition there is the fact that
the leaders of the Histadruth are
Zionist socialists of various tenden-
cies, who have an eye more to the in
terests of Zionist policy than the in
terests of the workers, and, instead
of helping the class struggle Of the
Jewish and Arab workers against i'm
perialism and the employers, have
made it their programme ITO realize
Zionism by means of close co-opera-
ton with the leaders of the Zionist
organizations"
In accordance with this policy the
third Congress Of the "Histadruth, y
which was held from 9TH to 22nd Of
July in Tel-Aviv, was entirely dom
mated by the question whether Zion
ism was on the way to being realized
and what conclusions the "Hista-
druth" must draw for its future work
IN view of the disaster which Zion
| ism has suffered in the last two years
the leaders of Histadruth were OBJ.
liged to admit that "at present it is
/ bankrupt" The most prominent lea.
der Of "Histadruth, (he is at the
same time an outstanding Zionist
LEADER Dr.. Arlosoroff, stated that
the slogan: "Zionism in our days" is
a Utopia which must be fought.
1t was in vain that various other
leaders endeavoured to hold out big
prospects before the Histadruth mem
bers. Not one of them was able t.
propose any concrete measures for 9
Wholesale continuation of Zionist
plans for the liquidation of unemploy
ment and increasing colonization ac
tivity. Thus there remained nothing
else to do but to appeal in various
tones to the petty-bourgeois 70
manticism of the Histadruth mem
bers, to whom was recommends,
"blind faith" in the Zionist ideals O
the Histadruth leaders and "fidelit-
to the Zionist flag" in spite of every
thing-in one world: Hold out for tn,
fatherlandw
What the Zionist majority of tn,
"Histadruth" Congress was unable t,
give to the Jewish workers in the wa,
of concrete solutions of their vita
questions (Which are no longer to b.
found within the circle of ideas O.
Zionism), they sought to make up b,
demagogic attacks on the eight dele
gates of the Workers Left. The lat
ter had attempted to draw the at
tention of the Congress to the rea
measures which are possible and alb
solutely necessary for the workers
the adoption of which would neces
sarily involve the discarding of reac
tionary Zionist ideology, and tn
Transformation of the "Histadruth
Unto real workers organization.
| The essence of the speeches of tn
LEFT Bloc" was that for tn