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comparatively large numbers of rabbis, ritual slaughterers, etc., which they could not have discharged had a serious decline in prosperity occurred. Conditions of war have virtually extinguished this form of immigration.

16. CATEGORY B(iii) (STUDENTS) had been utilized to facilitate quasi-illegal immigration since some students admitted either did not report to the educational institution which had made application for their admission to Palestine or, having reported and remained a short time with the institution, had not completed their studies, both classes entering the labour market. To some extent this abuse has been offset by deductions from the estimated number of vacancies in the labour market which the labour schedule (Category C) is designed to fill. But generally the position has been unsatisfactory not only for the immigration authority but for reputable educational institutions like the Hebrew University. Conditions of war virtually closed this category.

17. CATEGORY C (LABOUR). Immigration in this category is that of persons who have a definite prospect of employment in Palestine. The evidence of definite prospect of employment is provided by the prospective employer who guarantees the prospective immigrant that he is in a position to employ him at a stated salary and will continue to employ him in that employment or its equivalent for a minimum period of years. For purposes of administration employers of labour, therefore, make application for the prospective immigrant, and in the rules under the Ordinance the Executive of the Jewish Agency is a kind of conglomerate employer of labour. The minimum period for the guarantee of the employer of labour is one year.

18. Immigration in this category was controlled by a labour schedule prepared once in six months in which is laid down the maximum number of persons by sex, trades, industries and cal .. lings who may be admitted with immigration certificates under Category C during the period covered by the schedule. The High Commissioner approved the schedule which was then published in aggregate form in the Palestine Gazette after which it became operative for the period to which it related.

19. Special conditions were attached to the labour schedule in so far as it was allotted to the Jewish Agency; these conditions were concerned, for the most part, with the ages, sex and conjugal condition of the immigrants and their degree of skill, training and competence.

The greater part of the schedule was in fact assigned to the Jewish Agency, the immigration authority retaining a small

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