instances, when the work was of an urgent public importance, such as the new Power House of the Palestine Electric Corporation at Haifa, or the extension works at the Dead Sea, the necessary labour force could only be recruited by dint of s…

Commissioner's decision, fixing the absorptive capacity at 6,500 and deducting therefrom 1,000 on account of illegal Jewish entrants and settlers, caused a painful disappointment. Once again the schedule had been fixed at the same total in …

which was published officially, the High Commissioner stated inter alia that Jewish immigration was being admitted in accordance with the country's absorptive capacity, but that in determining that capacity Government was taking into accoun…

before the Executive in London and assist in enlightening political circles there on the nature of the apparent paradox that just at the very time when Jewish immigration into Palestine was rapidly increasing the protest against the immigra…

strike of protest for May 25th, 1934. The strike was universally observed and passed with complete quiet and dignity save at Tel- Aviv, where an unauthorised Revisionist demonstration resulted in an ugly clash between a crowd and the police…

13. The system of joint investigation by the officials of the Jewish Agency and those of * the Government Department of Immigration in preparation for the schedule was inaugurated on a limited scale in connection with the schedule of April,…

The new system has yielded beneficial results in many directions. Applications for capitalists' visas "are now settled promptly and discretion has been given to the Consular Authorities in a number of centres, in addition to Berlin and New …

that to carry this theory to extremes would involve two fallacies. The first fallacy would be to assume that the occupational composition of the Jewish people in the Diaspora was more or less the same as that required by conditions in Pales…

in agriculture, either in the countries of origin or in Palestine, still forms the subject of discussion with the Government. 17. A system was finally evolved of dividing the schedule into parts, the nature of which is explained in the Repo…

Council of the Jewish Labour Federation. The result was a marked increase of certificates allotted to single women, from 7 per cent, in the schedule of April-September, 1934 to 25 per cent, in the schedule of October, 1934 and to 28.5 per c…

checking the process of illicit settlement. The measures included the requirement of a deposit of £60 and the possession of a return ticket from all travellers (exceptingthose travelling first-class), the service of a warning on all tourist…

illegal immigration opened up a wide scope for the activities of unscrupulous agents taking advantage of, and exploiting, credulous persons who, on account of desperate conditions in their native lands, were anxious to get into Palestine. T…

1933, however, a card index was introduced, enabling Government to know exactly how many travellers had remained in the country without authority. As this system came into full operation Government began to base its deductions on the full r…

includes the infiltration from Transjordan and the Sinai, but it may well be that the entrants from the two latter countries and from other territories should be taken as exclusive of that figure. The Jewish Agency has recently been informe…

Iti and around the harbour........... On road construction in the town... ..... On Arab buildings .............. On Jewish buildings.............. On Arab porterage and transport (includini I. 1,854 265 876 85 II. 1,821 238 694 88 >g motor …

far from worsening in any way the lot of the Arab population as a whole, Jewish settlement activities have caused in many indirect ways an all-round increase of employment for the Arabs of Palestine. It remains, however, firmly convinced th…

élément of discrimination as between members of the two communities. It was pointed out that under the new legal position, a Jewish worker would not be allowed to picket a grove or a factory in protest against unfair displacement by an Arab…

of 57,000—for the requirements of local Arab cultivators, and to bear the cost of the drainage and reclamation of this area. The area so set aside for Arab needs is considerably larger than that which the original concessionaires undertook …

quisite areas for the existing Arab population. It pointed to the transfer of the Huleh concession as a precedent for a series of development schemes based on these two principles. It proposed that the Jewish national land agencies be enabl…

tioii of shipping', the grant of official assistance in the opening up of new markets, etc. It pressed, particularly, the need of exploring all possible ways for removing the disabilities arising from Palestine's position as a mandated terr…