Unemployment Among Austrian Jews Increases the Number of Suicides

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Encountering discrimination on all sides, both on the part of municipal authorities, business enterprises both non-Jewish and Jewish, the Jewish youth in Austria, in vain search for jobs, are driven to despair.

The number of suicides among the Jewish population has of late grown to alarming proportions. This situation is attributed to unemployment and the lack of credit facilities. A Jewish youth in search for work cannot find employment in public or private enterprises. Even many Jewish firms decline to employ Jews. A large intellectual proletariat including graduate lawyers, engineers and trained officials, is literally suffering starvation.

The Jewish press here has appealed to the Vienna Kehillah to establish an employment bureau, to establish credit facilities and to institute a campaign against the descrimination by Jewish firms against Jewish job-seekers. The campaign is to be conducted under the slogan : “Let the Jew Work.”