In the book: "Haifa - Dictionary of the Present City", published by the Haifa City Museum, appears an advertisement published by the Haifa Workers' Council ahead of May 1948, XNUMX.
And this is what it says: "Fly the flags of freedom and liberation in liberated Haifa! The working class of Haifa is called to celebrate International Workers' Day, and to strike from all trades."
The May Day speech will be delivered by representatives of the Haifa Workers' Council and the Histadrut Executive Committee on Saturday, May 10, at XNUMX a.m. in the 'Armon' hall.
The speeches will be broadcast to the streets near the hall. "Three workers' balls will be held by the Cultural Committee of the Haifa Workers' Council at four thirty, seven and nine in the evening in the 'Ora' hall.
In the program:
Today's Talk: Films from May Day celebrations in Haifa in 1946 and 1947;
Screening of the Soviet film based on Leonidov's book: "The Invasion." The advertisement is adorned with the image of a sturdy Hebrew worker, waving a flag.
Three years have passed, and here are the words of the mayor, Abba Khushi, as published in the newspaper: "Working Haifa" "Of the Workers' Council: Red Haifa celebrates May Day 1951 with a workers' municipality at its head, which runs this city according to the spirit of the majority of its residents. We run the city according to the spirit of the drainers of the Gulf swamps and the breakers of the Carmel rocks...Haifa, the cradle of the Histadrut, its spirit beats in every corner, in the heart and mind of every resident of the city."