The Legislative Commission of the Thuringian Diet has docided in favour of the prohibition of Shechita in the State. The Hitlerists, the Agricultural League and the Economic Party, which constitute the Coalition Government, all voted for prohibition, while the other parties abstained. The Bill for the prohibition of Shechita is accordingly assured of a majority when it comes up in the Diet in plenary session.
There had been a crisis in the Government over the question (reported in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 16th. inst.) because the Agricultural League and the Economic Party refused to vote for the prohibition of Shechita. The Hitlerists threatened that in that case they would leave the Coalition Government, which deprived in that way of its majority would have to resign, and go to the country. The Hitlerists were confident that they would be returned with a larger number of seats and perhaps be enabled to form an independent Government.
Something similar happened some months ago in Coburg, where the City Council dismissed a worker in the Municipal Slaughtering House who belonged to the Hitlerist Party, because he had beaten a Jewish butcher. The Hitlerists, who held the balance of power on the Council, as they do in the Thuringian Diet, forced a new election, in which they were returned with an independent majority. At the first meeting of the new Council, the dismissed employee, who attended wearing Hitlerist uniform, was publicly and triumphantly reinstated.
A decision for the prohibition of Shechita was adopted in the early part of this month also by the Special Commission in charge of this question in the Parliament of the Free City of Bremen.
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