A mobilization of all Jewish school children over 16 throughout Palestine was called today with the object of using them to relieve the acute shortage of Jewish labor throughout the country.
The Jewish National Council (Vaad Leurni) has requested the principals of all schools to relieve their pupils from next Sunday until Passover.
All pupils of the higher classes as well as the school teachers are to be drafted for work in the colonies. It is expected that the seminaries throughout the country, including many of the Talmudic colleges in Jerusalem will suspend their teaching in order to enable their students to undertake all kinds of labor in the country.
In order to relieve the immediate emergency, 100 students from the Talmudic colleges have already left to take up work where the shortage of labor is most acute.
The extreme shortage of Jewish labor in Palestine was anticipated at the recent National Conference of the Palestine Federation of Jewish Labor. One of the resolutions adopted at the Conference called for the opening of the country to larger immigration, and pointed out that unless this were done, colonists might be compelled to employ a great proportion of non-Jewish labor.
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