(J. T. A. Mail Service)
There are no openings for Jewish immigration to France. Mr. R. Gruenberg, Director of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Committee in Paris, who is now on a visit here, stated in an interview with Jewish press representatives.
“In the early post-war period, he said, France was open to immigration. At that time three million aliens entered France. Of these 2.800.000 were workers, including about 60.000 Jews, of whom about 30,000 stayed in Paris, and 30,000 went to various places in the provinces. When the unemployment in France increased at the end of 1926, the frontiers were barred against further immigration. The beginning of 1927 saw the commencement of a re-emigration movement among the immigrants. At the present moment only such workers were admitted to France who obtained special permits from the Ministry of Labour.”
Mr. Gruenberg warned Jewish workers who did not have such permits not to attempt to enter France. The aliens control in France is very rigorous.Immigrants who entered illegally are liable to heavy punishment and are in all cases deported. At the present tune, with a crisis in French industry and partisanship, there are no prospect: tor fresh immigration into the country. As for opportunities in agriculture, it would be a mistake to entertain any illusions in this regard, he said.
The relations between the Jews in France and the French population, Mr Gruenberg concluded, are excellent. There is no anti-Semitism in the Country.
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