Berlin Labor Court Upholds Expulsion of Jewish Workers

The fugitive hope of Jewish workers for legal support in their struggle to keep their positions was destroyed today when the Berlin labor court issued an important ruling upholding the authority of Nazi-controlled firms to dismiss Jewish employees without notice. The ruling was in a test case concerning fifty Jewish employees who had been discharged from their positions, and who considered their Jewishness insufficient reason for legal dismissal.

As Nazi cells now exist in practically all business and industrial concerns, and as the leader of any such cell now has the authority to order the dismissal of Jewish employees, no further appeal for Jewish workers is possible. The Central Verein, which is the central union of German-Jewish citizens, only yesterday advised the Jewish population that if dismissal from work was due solely to religious reasons, or Jewish-racial extraction, an employee was legally entitled to reinstatement. Today’s ruling destroys that refuge.