The members of the Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish parliament will vote against the adoption of the budget for 1929, was the declaration read by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum on behalf of the Club during the third reading of the estimates.
In explaining the reasons for this action, Deputy Gruenbaum stated that this year’s budget is identical with the budget of the previous year in that it imposes the main burden of taxation upon the urban population, mainly Jewish, while it does not in the least meet the needs of the Jewish population.
The Jewish population is compelled to maintain its schools and welfare institutions at its own cost. Even the needs of the Jewish religious institutions are ignored as is shown by the figures of 120,000 Zlotys allotted for that purpose in the budget while the budgets of the Kehillahs in Poland run into millions of Zlotys. Allocations for other religious institutions have been included prominently in the budget. The state budget, amounting to three milliard Zlotys, has an allotment of only several hundred thousand Zlotys for the needs of the Jewish population. The economic demands of the Jewish population are also being ignored and discrimination is practiced in the employment of Jews in state offices.
The Jewish deputies from Gallcia were absent when the vote was (##)n.
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