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Ask Polish Government to Settle Kehillah Dispute over Budget Issue

January 22, 1928
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Many View Deadlock as Fallure of Democratic System (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The Polish Ministry of Religious and Education was requested to make use of its right to settle the dispure among the various factions composing the Warsaw Kehillah with regard to budgetary allotments for educational purposes.

At a meeting of the Kehillah Executive held yesterday to consider the failure of the budget commission to make the allotments for the schools, no way was found out of the deadlock. The Zionists and the Bundists continued to easy their votes against the allotment for the Orthodox Chedorim, the Agudah and the ## stood firm against the subvention to the Hebrew Tarbuth schools maintained by the Zionists, while the Zionists and the Agudah delegates joined in fighting against support for the Yiddish schools of the labor groups. This failure to vote on the budget paralyzes the functions of the Kehillah.

The decision of the executive to submit the question to the Ministry of Religions and Education was considered in many circles here a sad commentary on the possibilities of a democratic system of administration in the largest Jewish community in Europe Prior to the institution of general elections, the Warsaw Kehillah was administered by a board chosen mainly from among the wealthier element.

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