An early letter signed by David Ben-Gurion while serving as the Histadrut's secretary general. Sent on 10/7/1929 to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in which he asks to be informed that the Histadrut Executive Committee has decided to invite a secret consultation of a number of members who know the Arab public in Israel, in order to find out the mood and relations prevailing among our Arab neighbors. "Among our Arab neighbors and for the sake of noted the possibilities of action of the Histadrut among the Arab working masses in the city and in the village ...".
Ben-Gurion's view in those days about the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel was that the struggle of the Arab population against the Jews of Israel was led by outside interested parties. In accordance with this approach, in 1925, he proposed the establishment of an Arab workers' union parallel to the Jewish one and unite the two under a joint council of the 'International Workers Union'. The riots of 1929 led to a change in Ben-Gurion's view on the Arabs of the Land of Israel, and he began to recognize the existence of a cohesive and independent character of an 'Arab national movement', whose formula must be found to allow its own existence alongside Jewish existence.
[1] Official Histadrut stationery leaf. 29x22 cm. Filing holes. Good condition.
