Nearly 1,500 families have aleady applied at the office of the Association for Jewish Farm Settlements, sponsor of the first agroindustrial colony, which is being established near Hightstown, N. J., with the assistance of the Subsistence Homestead division of the Federal government.
The colony will be able to accommodate only two humdred families, who will be drawn for the most part from the needle trade workers of New York and other centers of Jewish population. The sub-committee in charge of the project will soon be finished with the plans for the factory and official registration for the colony will begin.
The governmen thas appropriated a sum of money to the colony to be used thru the CWA. for preliminary clearing of the land where the house and the factory are to be built. The CWA will also assist in improving a pond on the property so that it can be used by the settlers.
The Association for Jewish Farm Settlements is now working out plans for the entablishment of colonies near other centers of Jewish population. A series of conferences is to be called in cities with large Jewish populations to mobilize public opinion and to help create the necessary fund which will give those families who can-not form part of this first colony, an opportunity to rehabilitate their lives in agratian and agro-industrial colonies.
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