Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Three demands to the mandatory power on behalf of the Jewish population of Palestine were embodied in resolutions adopted by the Jewish National Assembly of Palestine at its closing session Friday morning.
A resolution adopted by the Assembly urged the Palestine government to hasten the promulgation of the Palestine communities ordinance which would give the Jewish communities of Palestine their legal status under the mandate. That the Palestine government carry into effect Article VI of the Palestine mandate to grant available waste land for the close settlement of Jews, was the demand made in a second resolution. Another resolution urged the Palestine government to increase its allotment for the support of the Hebrew educational system.
The Assembly, which sat in session four days, disscused the agricultural, educational and labor problems of the country and came to a close following an all night session.
The Assembly devoted the last day to a discussion of the labor problems. Deputies Sugrasky, Dizengof, former mayor of Tel Aviv, and representatives of the Mizrachi and Yemenite Jews criticized the Jewish labor organizations for their method of work. The labor deputies, on the other hand, reproached the old colonists for not employing Jewish labor. The Assembly decided to establish a permanent obligatory arbitration commission which will have for its task the settling of all labor disputes in the colonies.
The discussion on the educational problems of Palestine was ended by the adoption of a resolution, according to which the Hebrew educational system is to remain under the supervision of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem with a view of gradually transferring it to the control of the Vaad Leumi, the National Council of Palestine Jews.
Representatives of the small Communistic group in the Assembly introduced at the last session of the Assembly a number of resolutions which were vehemently rejected amid jeers. One of these resolutions urged “the Jewish masses to unite with the Arab masses” and “to convoke a Palestine constitutional assembly.” Another resolution urged “the formation of workers and peasants councils in Palestine.” A third resolution urged that the language of instruction in the Jewish schools in Palestine be Yiddish. One resolution protested “against the pogroms in Roumania, Poland and Bulgaria.”
A new Vaad Leumi, National Council, consisting of 38 members, was elected by the assembly.
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