Jewish officials in government offices average hardly one-half of one per cent of the non-Jewish workers and officials in public works and government institutions, is the complaint voiced in the Palestine Hebrew press today.
Hebrew newspapers emphasize that the Palestine government is systematically neglecting its obligations with regard to employing Jewish workers in public enterprises. Not a single Jew is employed in the extension and improvement works of the Haifa Harbor, they complain. Not one Jew is employed in the works of the Haifa municipality.
Only ten Jews have posts in the government works in Jerusalem, including the government printing press, the post office and the police school. Only five Jews are employed on Jerusalem municipality enterprises.
While using thousands of Arab workers, including Arabs from neighboring countries, in the building projects, the Palestine government avoids the employment of Jews, the Hebrew papers say.
The papers demand that the government reconsider its policy towards the Jews in the face of the $10,000,000 loan which is to be used soon by the government for public works. This loan is to be repaid chiefly by income from taxes paid by Jews.
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