Summary
The Histadrut’s general secretary, who in June 1942 transferred management of the diamond workers’ strike from the Diamond Workers’ Union to the Tel Aviv labor council (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.172).
Details
- After securing cooperation with the other three unions, Remez decided to transfer management of the coming strike from the frail DWO to the more experienced Tel Aviv labor council, whose chief union specialist Aharon Becker took the leadership (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.172).
- The strike he thus helped organize began on 12 June 1942, when some 2,600 workers stopped work in the 33 factories in Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramat Gan (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.172).