Riva and Yehuda - Life Story by Tancman Mohel Tracz & Ben Eliezer families

Author:Tancman, Mohel, Tracz & Ben Eliezer families [CSK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

Hand-written PCP leaflet from the beginning of the 1930s distributed amongst labourers.

It was the second operation that I was proud of. Immediately after this, it was decided that I would move on to activities in the Arab streets. For this purpose, I needed to be among them. I was interested in learning Arabic and wanted to become familiar with their customs and so on. If I were to work on the streets with Arab communists, I must get to know them close up. So I decided to look for a job at the municipality, in Public Works, because the workers there were almost exclusively Arabs, since the wages were very low. Seven grush a day per person, while in the city, in a factory, an Arab worker earned 13 grush. The fixed wages for a Jewish worker were 20 grush. Therefore, Jewish workers did not work in Public Works and even among the Arabs, only the unskilled worked there. Because of the low pay it was not hard to find such work. I was accepted and began working at repairing roads, alongside Arab labourers. I believe that I was the only Jewish labourer who worked there. I worked with them and ate with them and learned about the Arab proletariat. I lectured to Arab cells from the Party. I worked in the Haifa port alongside Arab labourers and with labourers who worked on the oil line from Saudi Arabia which passed through Israel on the way to Syria or Lebanon. I ran a very extensive and active operation. Work on the road was quite difficult and tiring and the nutrition was relatively poor, but I was still young and I could afford to invest in intensive activities. That is, until I was detained for the first time.

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