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(March 1948)


From New International, Vol. XIV No. 3, March 1948, p. 96
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.


Cooperative Palestine: The Story of Histadrut, by Samuel Kurland, Natl. Comm. for Labor Palestine, 1947, 276 pp. $3.00 – A semi-official history of the Palestine trade union federation, by the Director of the Labor Palestine Information Bureau. Therefore emphasizes informational and factual background and description, with a minimum of interpretation and criticism – for example, it gives a complete whitewash to Histadrut’s policy toward Arab labor. But useful in its wide coverage of the varied activities carried on by one of the most unusual of labor federations.


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