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Re: Report of XIV Congress of the Communist Party of Israel, May 31 - June 3, 1961; Summary of Speech of Comrade Tawfik Tubi However, those who vemain linked to their birthplace fare no better. All find egual discrimination ~ jobs they secured are the heaviest, dirtiest and lowest paid. Brickmakers work on a piece-meal basis, earning approximately one pound an hour and must work 14 to 15 hours a day. Those employed on the capitalist cattle-raising ranches, earn between 150 and 200 pounds a month and do not get a single day of rest all through the month. Although officially the Histadrut has opened its doors to the Arab workers its functionaries are too busy protecting organized labor to pay attention to the unorganized Arab kborer. When the latter takes the matter of organizing into his own hands, the Histadrut leadership takes its time about receiving him into its ranks. If the Arab workers succeed in joining they are not allowed to handle even their Local affairs. The Histadrut has not permitted the establishment of a single elected workers' council in any Arab settlement. Things are worse in the political life. Very few elected local councils have been allowed to emerge. The military government has very little faith in the few lackeys it has been able to mobilize for it knows that these have litkle influence on the Arab masses. Therefore, the military government is constantly resorting to terror, and its policy ranges from warnings to Arab citizens not to engage in subversive activities (that is any form of opposition to the arbitrary policy of Ben-Gurion's Government), to the denial of the shameful movement permits and administrative detentions. A natural culmination of this repressive policy was the unforgivable and shameful killing of peaceful and innocent Arab citizens at Kaffer Kassemat the time of the | Sinal War. .