Increased credit relief to Jewish artisans and agricultural settlers in France will be given by the local Ort Committee there in accordance with a decision adopted this week a conference of Ort leaders held in Marseille, it is reported here today.
The conference, presided over by Prof. William Oualid, was attended by members of the central committee of the Ort in France as well as by representatives of local Ort committees. Detailed reports at the conference revealed that there are at present more than 58 Ort institutions in 18 French cities where some 1,200 youths and adults are receiving industrial and agricultural training. Thirteen training and production workshops are being installed in the camps in which alien Jews are interned. Machinery has been sent to the camp at Gurs in order to secure larger production possibilities.
“Very happy results” are being obtained from agricultural work conducted by the Ort, it was also reported at the conference. Individual settlers are being given agricultural credits from Ort funds and the number of farms is growing constantly. Local leaders stressed the necessity for effective, constructive mass measures by the Ort to ameliorate the need of many French Jews who have resided in the country for a long period, and are now suffering as a result of the anti-Jewish restrictions, barring them from their former occupations.
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