 The office was in rooms in Petticoat Lane, where Moshe Sharett worked part-time translating Yiddish into English.They built contacts with both Labour and the Independent Labour Party, and succeeded in becoming affiliated to the British Labour Party in 1920 under the name of The Jewish Socialist Labour Party, claiming membership of 3,000, although actual membership was a few hundred.One issue that they tried to influence policy on was the northern border of Palestine which was being decided at the San Remo conference.