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No. 2. | Vienna, 11 January 1901. | Fifth Year

Manufacturers, Tradesmen, Technicians!

In order to procure bread and work for the 400 Jewish workmen in Palestine who are without employment, the founding of industrial and manufacturing undertakings in Palestine (factory operation and domestic operation) is planned. It is above all a question of producing such articles as are in part urgently needed in Palestine itself, and could therefore be placed there, and in part can be won from the raw materials existing in the country and brought to export. In the first line there come into consideration: tanneries, spinning-mills, clothing, washing-soap, paper, match, cement, machine, textile and chemical factories, further basket-weaving works (domestic industry).

To those undertakers who bind themselves to draw the labour for the works to be opened from the ranks of the Palestinian workmen, and who give surety for a suitable remuneration and a just treatment of these workmen, a corresponding credit and a sufficient subvention in ready money will be procured.

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Upon this appeal a considerable number of offers has come in to the undersigned Secretariat, of which, however, only a part could be taken into account. For a series of undertakings there is therefore still room open.

The appeal accordingly goes forth once more to Jewish manufacturers, tradesmen and technicians to turn their particular attention to the projected industrial and manufacturing works in Palestine. It is a question not only of business undertakings, for which favourable fundamental conditions are created from the outset, but also of a Jewish work in the best sense of the word.

Since the distress of the Jewish workmen demands an urgent rendering of help, the opening of the works in the near future is necessary.

Offers, with detailed statements as to the hitherto employment of the applicants and their material circumstances, and further with full communications as to the nature and extent of the projected works and the amount of the capital participation on the part of the undertakers, may be addressed as soon as possible to the undersigned Secretariat.

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A New Turkish Ordinance.

In our last number*) we placed in its true light the report of the “Polit. Corresp.” concerning alleged sharpened measures of the Porte against the Jews. We set forth that the matter of fact which this report contains is nearly two decades old, and that what is new in it rests upon nothing but combinations and the manufacture of sentiment.

To-day we are in a position to set against the report of the “Polit. Corresp.”, which has made its way through many papers, another report.

From Constantinople it is reported under date of 3 January:

A special Irade of the Sultan permits, from now onward, the Jews who have lawfully settled in Palestine to acquire landed property, both “Miri” (arable land, the property of the Sultan) and “Mulk” (town land). At the same time the right of sojourn of Jews who travel in Palestine is extended to three months.

With particular emphasis it is insisted that the Turkish Government makes no distinction whatever of creed, and concedes to the Jews the same rights and privileges as to the members of other confessions.

We need not first tell our friends that the in themselves uncommonly gratifying and

*) Communications of the Actions Committee.