(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The results of the census of Jewish Labor taken in Palestine on September 1, 1926, have just been published here. In Jaffa and Tel-Aviv there are 6,512 workingmen and 4,131 workingwomen; in Haifa 4,036 workingmen and 2,138 workingwomen; in Jerusalem 3,277 workingmen and 1,711 workingwomen; in Afuleh 357 workingmen and 188 workingwomen; in Tiberias 649 men and 164 women. Safad has 90 men and 87 women, Acre 127 men and 87 women, the Jaffa-Ludd Jewish railway workers number 71 men and 40 women; at Sarafand there are 35 men and 18 women; at Nazareth 17 men and 28 women; at Nablus 8 men and 3 women and at Gaza 5 men and 4 women. The total of Jewish workingmen is 14,884 and the total of women 8,563. These figures refer to the towns only. 65.3 percent of all these workers are members of the General Jewish Labor Federation.
The Jewish workers in the colonies of southern and northern Judea, Samaria and Galilee number 3,745 men and 1,568 women, making a total of 5,313 workingmen and women, of whom 80 percent are registered with the General Jewish Labor Federation in Palestine.
A campaign for funds for the erection of a Jewish Community center building in Johnstown, Pa., was launched.
Julius Fisher is director of the campaign.
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