Sixteen Jewish laborers at Ness Ziona, including two secretaries, were arrested and 12 others detained today at the Ramleh jail for participating in yesterday’s demonstration of unemployed workers at Ness Ziona where a number of hot heads smashed windows in the colonists’ houses and did not retreat until the police fired in the air.
The secretariat of the Ness Ziona workers adopted a resolution today regretting that the unemployed had resorted to violence and calling on the workers to submit to discipline. Meanwhile at Hedera the colonists are seeking to solve the unemployment problem in the orange groves by peaceable means. They have prepared a list of all planters capable of furnishing work. At Petach Tikvah the colonists reaffirmed their demand for a wage reduction to three shillings a day after a conference with a joint delegation of the Vaad Leumi and the Jewish Agency.
The trouble between the workers and the colonists in the orange-growing belt is an almost annual affair coinciding with the beginning of the orange-picking season. The Jewish laborers claim that not enough Jews are employed in the Jewish-owned groves. The planters at Petach Tikvah have agreed to assure the employment of a larger number of Jews if the Jewish Federation of Labor will agree to cut the daily wage scale to three shillings.
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