Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 270

covered by this Report have been: (1) the impossibility of properly adjusting the distribution of the certificates (which are allotted by groups and sub-groups) to the needs of immigration as conditioned by the position abroad; (2) the extension of immigration beyond the Halutz movement, to classes not hitherto represented to any extent (persons of means, artisans, skilled technicians in industry and agriculture); (3) A tendency on the part of Government to introduce helpful amendments in immigration procedure (abolition of the necessity for all applications to be referred to Jerusalem, enlargement of the powers of immigration officers and consuls with regard to the immigration of persons of means and of relatives) while at the same time insisting on the actual law being respected. The disparity between the demand for immigration and the limitations imposed by the Government's immigration schedules, produced consequences that it was difficult to overcome, such as the abandonment of agricultural labour, which carries a comparatively low wage, for the more highly paid work in town. The Immigration Department had to take these factors into consideration and to adjust them to its whole complex of problems. I. Volume of Immigration. In dealing with immigration figures it is more instructive to study their development over a period of years. We have begun with the year 1929 when a decisive change took place in immigration : Table 1. Immigration during 1929-1935. Tourists No. of granted permission Year. Immigrants. to remain. Total. 1929 4,055 1,194 5,249 1930 4,249 695 4,944 1931 3,136 939 4,075 1932 5,823 3,730 9,553 1933 27,862 2,465 30,327 1934 38,244 4,115 42,359 Jan.-June 1935 28,516 1,958 30,474 Total 111,885 15,096 126,981 From 1929 to 1931 Halutzim formed the great majority of the immigrants, bringing an average of 4,000 persons per year into 270