Palestine Jewry is steadily progressing in the development of its agricultural and industrial life, declared A. Hamlin, American Poale-Zion leader and secretary of the Geverkshaften Campaign, on his arrival this week in New York from an extended visit to Palestine as a member of the American Jewish Labor delegation and as a delegate to the first World Congress for Palestine Workers, held recently in Berlin.
“While in Palestine we found going on in full swing the work at the Rutenberg electric power station, the Dead Sea excavations, the building of the Haifa harbor, the work in the orange plantations at which 8,000 Jewish workers are employed, the building of new Jewish quarters in Jerusalem and Haifa and other smaller and larger undertakings. The Palestinian Jew is not losing his courage and confidence in the future.”
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