Political report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the ... Zionist Congress and the ... session of the Council of the Jewish Agency · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 34

34 to function without interruption and to obtain the necessary protection. At the instance of the Jewish Agency armed guards were provided for trains. Similarly, protection was obtained for parties of Jewish workers employed in outlying and exposed areas. All Jewish passenger traffic by sea from abroad was diverted to Haifa and representations were made to ensure its orderly landing. The unloading of goods destined for Tel Aviv was also concentrated in Haifa and steps were taken to ensure their discharge at the railway station of Tel Aviv. Special steps were taken to ensure the normal supply of milk and vegetables from the Emek to the Jewish town areas. Assistance was given to all efforts made for the resumption with Jewish workers of important enterprises which had come to a standstill by the desertion of Arab labour. A notable case in point was the reopening of the quarry of the Nesher Cement Works which, until the disturbances, had been manned exclusively by Arab labour and the closing of which on account of the Arab strike threatened to leave Jewish building without the necessary supply of cement. Assistance was given to ensure the supply of stone from Jewish owned and Jewish worked quarries to building works in Tel Aviv. Government, was urged to resume with Jewish labour a number of public works, the continuation of which had been interrupted by the Arab strike: in some cases these representations were successful. Special care was taken to help to ensure the opening at the appointed time of the Levant Fair in the face of the difficulties created by the strike of the Port of Jaffa. 44. The losses and suffering caused by the disturbances likewise called for action. The Political Department organised Committees of Lawyers in the main centres for the purpose of collecting evidence on the disturbances and rendering assistance to Jewish sufferers. A day-to-day register of Jewish victims and of damages inflicted on Jewish property was conducted, which in the end rendered possible the drawing up of a comprehensive survey of Jewish losses, human and material. Legal assistance was provided in all cases where it was felt that the interests of the Jewish victims of Arab aggression or of false accusation would not otherwise be protected. The liability of Arab individuals and villages for attacks and destruction of property was continually pressed on the attention of Government. Finally, from the very beginning of the disturbances