The scourge of strikes and lock-outs has been striking Palestine during the last fifteen years with greater violence than in any other country of the world. this is the conclusion one must draw from a comparison of the figures recently published by the Palestine labor organization, the Histadruth Ovdim, with those of other countries.
From 1921 to 1932, 383 strikes or lock-outs took place and affected 9,260 Jewish workers causing them a loss of 124,392 workdays. This gives an average of 132 strikers per 1,000 Jewish workers in Palestine, while during the same period England had an average of thirty-eight strikers per 1,000 workers, Switzerland twenty. Rumania nineteen, Holland sixty-six, Belgium sixty-five.
On the basis of the total Jewish population, Palestine has had thirty-five strikes per thousand of population, Belgium eighteen. Holland seven, Denmark eight, England eighteen.
The same figures also indicate that the Jewish Palestinian worker loses considerably more workdays than the workers of such highly industrialized countries like Austria, Czechoslovakia, or France, and that while in the other countries mentioned the loss of workdays inns due in great proportion to lockouts by employers, in Palestine the lock-outs are fewer in comparison.
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