NEW INDUSTRIES URGED

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 72, 19 August 1938, Page 4

NEW INDUSTRIES URGED

t AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. JEWISH PROPOSAL • i_ MELBOUiiNK, July 21.—The possibility of establishing extensive secondary industries throughout Australia and New Zealand with “Jewish brains, Jewish capital and Jewish labour,” was discussed by Mr Hans Klein last night.* Mr Klein, who arrived in the Grama, is 'secretary, of the Freeland Longue for Jewish Territorial Organ i- . .nation and of the “Ktineol,” of Paris, a society for Jewish emigration and colonisation under the auspices of tin: League of Nations.; 1 He will investigate the possibilities of establishing large-scale,,factories and plants in Australia.

“Our organisations have ample capital,” lie said:. “ We have a stall of skilled professors, chemists, and research workers, and schools idr the .training of skilled artisans. We do not intend to bring to Australia pedlars and ordinary tradesmen. Wo will

investigate conditions to see wlmt industries arc likely to prosper in Australia without competing with existing industries. “Wo will bring into the country all the ■ necessary finance, and will build our own factories, and staff them with Jewish workers from Central Europe who will work to the same standards of wages amli conditions as Australian workers.

“Many of our men will bring their own. patents for suck .work as oil distillation, the manufacture of optical instruments, and chemical work. Palestine does not offer sufficient scope for industrial expansion.” Mr Klein owned a large metallurgical plant in Vienna, but he said that it was seized by the Nazis, and bo was driven from the country.