Summary
The Hashomer Hatza’ir activist (born in Galicia, Poland, in 1909) who became a key leader of the left among the Jewish railway workers in Haifa from 1935 (Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, lines 1984-1990).
Details
- Krisher joined Hashomer Hatza’ir, emigrated to Palestine in 1934 with a group slated to settle at Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz, and was sent by his comrades to work at the Haifa workshops under the Histadrut’s call for recruits to reverse the decline of Hebrew Labour on the railroad; he formally remained a kibbutz member until 1941 but stayed in Haifa as a railway employee and union activist until his retirement in the 1970s (Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, lines 1984-1986; Chapter 4 note 59).
- By spring 1935 he was on the Haifa branch committee of the railway union urging greater militancy and receptiveness to cooperation and even unity with Arab workers; in January 1937 he was reelected with the greatest number of votes and chosen secretary of the Haifa branch, but Mapai used its domination of the Histadrut bureaucracy to nullify his election (lines 1988-1990).
Related pages
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, Hashomer Hatza’ir, Palestine Railways, International Union of Railway, Postal and Telegraph Employees in Eretz Yisra’el