Special Fund of $50,000 to Relieve Palestine Unemployment Voted

A special remittance of $50,000 to the Palestine Zionist Executive was voted by the Finance Committee of the United Palestine Appeal, Emanuel Neumann, National Secretary of the Appeal, announced yesterday.

The special appropriation, which has already been remitted to Palestine, is in addition to the regular monthly commitment of the United Palestine Appeal and is to be utilized for the purpose of relieving unemployment in Palestine through loans to municipalities and cooperative labor groups for the construction of public and private works in cities and colonies. It is estimated that these loans will help considerably to reduce the unemployment which, according to cables that have recently come from Palestine, has been caused by the rainy season and by a reduction in the number of immigrants of independent means. Both these causes have led to a curtailment of the building industry in Tel Aviv and other cities.

The special appropriation of $50,000 which has just been announced, is the second extra appropriation made by the United Palestine Appeal to the Palestine Zionist Executive. The first, the sum of $100,000, was made last April in response to a special request from the Palestine Zionist Executive, a large part of whose income has been stopped as a result of the serious economic situation in Eastern Europe.

The United Palestine Appeal is now making an effort to cash in the pledges that have been made in order that the work of immigration and colonization may proceed without interruption.

LIPSKY SAILS FOR LONDON; TO ATTEND EXEC. MEETING

Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, sailed on the Mauretania for London.

Mr. Lipsky will attend the meeting of the Zionist Executive in London which will last three days. He will immediately return to New York. The meeting of the Executive will prepare the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee.