James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the New York Allied Jewish campaign, announced yesterday that because of increased labor demands in Palestine arising out of the development there of a number of privately initiated agricultural and industrial enterprises, the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency has submitted a request to the Palestine Government for a substantial number of additional immigration certificates. This information, Mr. Rosenberg said, is contained in a cablegram to him from Maurice B. Hexter, a member of the Palestine Executive of the Jewish Agency in which he states that one of the agricultural enterprises which has caused the increased labor demand is the development of the orange-growing industry in the Sharon Plain.
“This development,” Mr. Hexter says in his cable, “is proceeding at the same remarkable pace as has been noted during the past three years in other parts of the Palestine citrus belt. It is a solid development and will provide permanent employment for substantial numbers.”
Mr. Hexter’s cable also states that although nearly 4,000 immigrants, mostly chalutzim and including 550 Yemenite Jews have arrived in Palestine since October, there is, except for a small labor reserve, no unemployment problem there, and that Jewish industrial and commercial conditions have been much improved since the August disorders. The Arab boycott against Jewish merchants, which was fomented by agitators during the riot period has completely lost its force, the cable says.
Mr. Hexter’s cable to Mr. Rosenberg states that the spirit of the entire Jewish population in Palestine has been greatly encouraged by the conclusion reached at the recent meeting in London of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency under the chairmanship of Felix M. Warburg to intensify its efforts to facilitate the establishment of the Jewish Homeland. These efforts, Mr. Rosenberg said, include stimulating increased Jewish immigration in accordance with the land’s capacity to absorb it; training the immigrants agriculturally or industrially; consolidating existing agricultural settlements and creating new ones; advancing loans to new farmers; consolidating existing financial and cooperative institutions and improving the shipping and marketing facilities of the country.
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