Several hundred Jewish merchants have approached the Jewish Merchants Union here with an appeal that the organization ###tervene with the authorities in their ###chalf for an extension of the period ### payment for new trading licenses.
Their business has been completely ###ined by the anti-Semitic excesses which occurred late last month and #arly in December and by the anti-Semitic boycott agitation which pre##nted them from benefitting from the Christmas trade, the merchants de#ared.
As the situation stands at present, ###ey are unable to make payment for the licenses for the new year. Trading without licenses is forbidden.
The Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish Sejm in its interpellation on the anti-Jewish excesses in Poland asked for a moratorium for Jewish merchants in view of the great damages suffered by them.
The Menorah Organization held a
meeting in the auditorium of City College on Thursday where the anti-Jewish excesses in Poland were scored.
Addresses were delivered by Henry Hurwitz, Chancellor of the Society; Herbert Solow and Everett Clinchy, secretary of the Good-Will Organization.
Dr. Arthur Kraus, the hunger striker, also attended the meeting and delivered a heated address in which he attacked in particular the lack of unity in Jewish academic circles in the United States.
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