On September 1st. there were in Palestine 1,980 Jewish unemployed, the Jewish Agency Department of Immigration and Labour reports. Of these, there were 500 in the Agricultural Settlements, 480 in Haifa, 450 in Tel Aviv, 350 in Jerusalem, and 200 in the Emek.
According to the figures presented by the Department of Immigration and Labour to the last Zionist Congress held at Basle in July, the number of Jewish unemployed in Palestine was 810 on July 1st., 1929; 715 on January 1st., 1930; 497 on July 1st., 1930; 1,486 on January 1st., 1931; and 1,510 on March 1st., 1931. These figures did not include the unemployed in the colonies, it was added, as unemployment there is periodical. In the summer of 1929, the report said, the number of unemployed in the colonies was about 200, in the summer of 1930 it rose to about 500, and now (1931) it amounts to about 1,000, a great number of whom are, however, at least partially employed.
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