The Nesher cement works, which is desirous of investing about 150,000 pounds (about $750,000) in the expansion of its works, is unable to proceed because of the acute shortage of labor, it was learned yesterday.
At the same time, the Palestine government, over the bitter protest of the Jewish organizations, is drastically curtailing the number of Jewish immigrants permitted to enter Palestine. Recently, the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine asked the government for some twenty four thousand immigration certificates for the period between October 1933, and March 1934. However, the government granted only some 5,000 odd certificates, claiming that that number represented the absorptive capacity of Palestine.
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