Many activities will be interconnected. For example: the Company will
gradually introduce the manufacture of goods into the settlements
which will, of course, be extremely primitive at their inception.
Clothing, linens, and shoes will first of all be manufactured for our
own poor emigrants, who will be provided with new suits of clothing at
the various European emigration centers. They will not receive these
clothes as alms, which might hurt their pride, but in exchange for old
garments: any loss the Company sustains by this transaction will be
booked as a business loss. Those who are absolutely without means will
pay off their debt to the Company by working overtime at a fair rate
of wage.
Existing emigration societies will be able to give valuable assistance
here, for they will do for the Company's colonists what they did
before for departing Jews. The forms of such cooperation will easily
be found.
Even the new clothing of the poor settlers will have the symbolic
meaning. "You are now entering on a new life." The Society of Jews
will see to it that long before the departure and also during the
journey a serious yet festive spirit is fostered by means of prayers,
popular lectures, instruction on the object of the expedition,
instruction on hygienic matters for their new places of residence, and
guidance in regard to their future work. For the Promised Land is the
land of work. On their arrival, the emigrants will be welcomed by our
chief officials with due solemnity, but without foolish exultation,
for the Promised Land will not yet have been conquered. But these poor
people should already see that they are at home.
The clothing industries of the Company will, of course, not produce
their goods without proper organization. The Society of Jews will
obtain from the local branches information about the number,
requirements and date of arrival of the settlers, and will communicate
all such information in good time to the Jewish Company. In this way
it will be possible to provide for them with every precaution.