The government of Palestine is experiencing the current labor shortage in Palestine due to under-immigration, according to a report in Davar, Labor daily. Citation is made of a strange reversal of policy on the part of the Palestine Railways Administration. Hitherto train-drivers and stokers were not employed unless they were literate, under one of the railroad regulations. But owing to difficulty in finding employees who can read and write, the regulation has been rescinded.
Many skilled workers have left the railroad service to obtain higher pay and better conditions elsewhere on the labor market. There are few to replace them. The administration was obliged to employ illiterates.
Davar points out that very high standards of general and technical education are required in all railroad companies in the world, but not so in Palestine.
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