The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 41)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 41)

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41,000 in only nine months, between the end of 1935 and the end of
1936.8
The influx of Jewish immigrants and the fierce competition between
them and the Arab workers on jobs led to the hardening of the
Histadrut’s attitude over the question of exclusive employment of Jewish
workers in the Jewish enterprises, and in 1935 the Histadrut launched a
campaign to exclude Arab workers from all Jewish enterprises. ® As a
result of this, large number of Arab workers were expelled from their
work at Jewish enterprises. For example, in the four Jewish settlements
of Mulabbes, Dinan, Wadi Hanin, and al-Khedira, there were 6214 Arab
workers in February 1935, and as a result of the expulsion, this number
was reduced to 2276 in August that year and to 677 in September 1936. ”
In other instances there were Jewish attacks on Arab labourers to force
them to leave their work, as when an Arab contractor and his workers
were attacked by Jews to force them off the site for a Jewish building in
Haifa in 1934, 7!
The difference in wages between Arab and Jewish workers was also
strikingly high, not only in private enterprises, but also in public works. ”
Here, where the government paid an average wage for a 9 hour day to a
skilled and semi-skilled Arab asphalt labourers in 1929, 160 mils while a
Jewish labourer was paid 220 mils for the same work. Another example,
is an Arab road labourer being paid 130 mils, while the Jewish were paid
160, or the Arab contractor paid 200 mils, and the Jewish paid 350 mils.
AS estimated by the Royal Commission in its Report:
68 Ibid, pp.299-300
69 Sarah Graham-Brown, "The Political Economy of Jabal
Nablus". p.145,
70 "George Mansur Testimony, 16/1/1937 ". p.297.
71 Ibid, pp. 297-8
72K. Nakhleh and £. Zureik (eds.) The Sociology of the
Palestinians. pp.57-8
73 Sarah Graham-Brown, "The Political Economy of Jabal
Nablus". p.164
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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