The question of regulating Palestine’s food supplies in connection with the difficulties which Winston Churchill predicted yesterday for the Mediterranean area was raised today at a conference of mayors held in Haifa, attended by the mayors of the larger cities in Palestine. The same question will be discussed this week at a conference between the delegation of mayors and the Palestine High Commissioner.
At today’s conference, the mayors decided to ask the Palestine government to fix the prices of flour, bread, rice, fats, tea, coffee and a number of other essentials and to ration these commodities. The conference also requested that the local municipalities in Palestine be given the right to fix prices of dairy products.
An acute shortage of workers in Palestine prompted the Histadruth today to issue a call to Jewish pupils to volunteer for work in the Jewish-owned fields. The call was issued through the Merkaz Chaklai, the agricultural section of the Histadruth. At a press conference today leaders of the Markaz said that the shortage in Jewish field-hands is seriously hampering the development of the country.
The Jewish Agency today made public data showing that while the total Jewish population in Palestine increased from 492,000 at the end of 1940 to 520,000 at the end of 1941, the percentage of the Jewish population in the country has dropped from 31.3 to 30.8 during the same period.
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