Fourteen thousand Jews have been absorbed recently in industries in Jerusalem, Jaffa and the forthcoming work on the Haifa harbor construction, declares the British Colonial Office in a statement issued today. There are now only 1,500 unemployed Jews in the country, the statement says.
Charges of bad conditions in labor in Palesitine were made at the Fourth Jewish Labor Conference in Palestine, the labor organ, “Daily Herald,” reports here.
It was complained at the conference that the workers labor under intolerable sanitary conditions, that they are ill-treated at the hands of foremen and that they receive very low wages. Preference is shown by the municipalities and the government for cheap Arab labor instead of skilled Jewish labor, it was declared.
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