Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 86

13.—The Prevention of Speculation. (o) The General Council views with grave concern the alarming spread of speculation in land, which is sapping the foundations of the Yishub and of the Zionist movement, and requests the Executive to apply the sternest measures in order to uproot this evil once and for all. (b) The General Council appeals to all organs of the Zionist Organisation and of the Yishub, and to all Jews in Palestine and elsewhere, to fight speculation with all their might and with all weapons, and to support the Executive in its fight. (c) The General Council directs the Executive : (i) To establish a centre for the control of all transactions in land, in order to prevent exaggerated inflation of prices, competition, trespassing over boundaries, the deception and exploitation of the Jewish masses, who are hungry for land, in Palestine and the Diaspora. (ii) To require the financial institutions to use the utmost care inascertaining, before granting loans for the purchase of land, whether the purchase is being made for speculative purposes. (d) The Central Control Office shall publish the names of persons who engage in or encourage land speculation, and require the press to publish no advertisements concerning the sale of land which have not been previously examined by the Control Office. V. ORGANISATION. 1. —Time and Place of the 19th Congress. The General Council resolves that the 19th Congress shall be convened for the end of August, 1935. Time and place of the Congress shall be fixed by the Executive. 2. —World Election List. In pursuance of the resolution of the 18th Congress, the General Council resolves upon the following amendments of the Regulations concerning the World Election List. (a) Section 2 shall read as follows : "The following are entitled to nominate one World Election List each : (1) The Zionist Federations jointly (General Zionists). (2) Each Zionist Separate Union. (3) Each parliamentary party (' Fraction ') of the preceding Congress or several such parties jointly. (4) Any other electoral party with which at the time of communicating the lists (Sec. 4) Nomination Lists in at least five other countries (electoral areas) are combined." (b) After Section 14, the following Section 14a shall be inserted : " Additional seats shall be allotted only to World Election Lists, the combined nomination lists of which have succeeded in securing seats in at least three electoral areas." 3. —Proposals for the Reform of the Standing Orders of the Zionist Congress. The General Council directs the Zionist Executive to convene a special meeting of the Council immediately before the 19th Zionist Congress, to discuss and decide the question of a reform of the Zionist Congress. The Executive's proposals in this connection shall be communicated to members of the General Council at reasonable notice. 4. —Proposals for the Reform of the Zionist Organisation. The General Council takes note of the Zionist Executive's decision to invite public discussion of the questions of Territorial Unions and of the two-year shekel after the present meeting of the Council, with a view to enabling the 19th Zionist Congress to discuss and decide these matters. 86