Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · 20 May 1927

CP-1927-011

World Zionist Org. Seeks Palestine Economic Facts

Send Commission of 6 to Study Conditions — Two Americans Are Named · Zionists To Send Fact Commission To Palestine

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, London

Transcribed from the clipping

“London. — (J.T.A.) — The sending of a commission of six to examine the entire economic system employed by the Zionist agencies in Palestine and to prepare a budget to be submitted to the 15th congress of the World Zionist Organization which will be held August 30, in Basle was determined upon by the actions committee, the general council of the Zionist movement, in session here. The commission is to proceed to Palestine immediately and will carry on its work with a view to submitting proposals to introduce changes in the system if found desirable. Five members of the commission will be appointed by the Zionist executive. Two Americans, Emanuel Neumann and Samuel J. Rosensohn will be members of the commission. Other members are Bernard Feiwel, Mr. Kastreliansky, economic advisor to the Zionist executive in Jerusalem, Harry Sacher and Engineer Schocken. The general council also approved the project of securing a loan of £140,000, of which the amount of £90,000 is to be used for emergency works for the purpose of discontinuing the relief allotments. The emergency works are to be begun soon. Measures are also to be taken to alleviate the position in Tel Aviv and to improve the situation of the workingmen in the colonies. The council also decided to take steps toward the creation of an Industrial Bank, to complete workingmen’s settlements in the suburb of Palestinian cities and, in conjunction with the Vaad Leumi, the national Council of Palestine Jewry, to create obligatory general labor bureaus in which employers and employees are to be equally represented. The council also voted to continue to make energetic representations to the Palestine government to accelerate public works… In their concluding addresses Dr. Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow, and Dr. Leo Motzkin praised the spirit of co-operation… Dr. Weizmann in his address made a moving appeal to the labor groups represented at the council for a ‘patient, courageous and impartial attitude,’ during this trying time.”

Context added by this archive

The financial machinery of settlement set out in a Milwaukee weekly: a fact-finding commission, a £140,000 loan, emergency works to replace relief payments, an industrial bank and compulsory labour bureaux. The phrase worth marking is workingmen’s settlements in the suburb of Palestinian cities, where Palestinian is doing plain geographical work in 1927 and the settlements are the Jewish ones.

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"World Zionist Org. Seeks Palestine Economic Facts," Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 20 May 1927. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1927-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1927-011

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