(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The first workers’ suburb in the proposed industrial city, Jidrah, will be built shortly, according to a decision of the Jewish National Fund headquarters here.
The Jewish National Fund, the agency of the Zionist Organization which has for its purpose the buying of Palestine land as inalienable property of the Jewish people, decided to allot 5,000 dunam at Jidrah, near Haifa, for the workers’ suburb. It was estimated that 1200 families will be settled in the suburb.
The industrial city to be built near Haifa, Palestine’s future port, is to be the center of the textile industry of the country. The Cooperative Manor Company of Poland, for whom the proposed industrial city is to be built by the Siemens-Schuckert concern of Germany, has been organized by a group of three hundred textile men of Poland. The three hundred members are all small manufacturers and practical workers in the textilc industry of Lodz, Bialystok, Thomashow and other textile centers in Poland. The total capital of the Manor is ###75,000 contributed by three hundred members at ###250 each.
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