PARLIAMENT TODAY ADOPTED A BILL FORBIDDING JEWS TO DEAL IN CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS OBJECTS WHILE THE SEJM (LOWER HOUSE) HEARD AN APPEAL FOR GOVERNMENT AMELIORATION OF THE JEWS’ SUFFERING AND PREMIER SKLADKOWSKI ANNOUNCED HE WOULD SHORTLY MAKE A STATEMENT ON THE JEWISH QUESTION AND GENERAL MINORITY PROBLEMS.
MEANWHILE, EX-PRESIDENT IGNACE PADEREWSKI’S NEW PARTY JOINED THE ANTI-SEMITIC CAMPAIGN AS ITS ORGAN, NOWA PRAWDA, UNITED WITH THE NARA (NATIONAL RADICAL) NEWSPAPER, ABC, TO PUBLISH A “CALL TO FIGHT THE JEWS,” URGING POLES TO BOYCOTT JEWS AND NOT SELL THEIR PROPERTY TO THEM.
THE SENATE PASSED A BILL PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY THE SEJM FORBIDDING JEWS TO ENGAGE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OR TRADE IN CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS OBJECTS. THE SENATE REJECTED THE SEJM’S PROVISION MAKING AN EXCEPTION OF THE EXPORT TRADE.
DEPUTY LEIB MINZBERG, SPEAKING DURING THE SEJM BUDGET DEBATE, CITED THE JEWS’ “MORAL TORTURES, PHYSICAL SUFFERING, ECONOMIC EXTERMINATION AND POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION” AND SAID HIS COLLEAGUES IN PARLIAMENT HAD BECOME HELPLESS WITNESSES TO THE WRONGS COMMITTEE AGAINST THE JEWS.
INVOKING THE CONSTITUTION HAS BECOME “AN INEFFECTUAL ANACHRONISM,” THE JEWISH DEPUTY SAID. HE URGED ABANDONMENT OF MASS EMIGRATION PROJECTS AS A SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH QUESTION AND EMPHASIZED THAT THE JEWS WOULD NOT GIVE UP THEIR RIGHTS.
HE RECALLED THE PRIME MINISTER’S SPEECH TWO YEARS AGO WARNING AGAINST ANTI-JEWISH EXCESSES, SAYING, “IT STATS WITH THE JEWS AND ENDS WITH ANARCHY.” HE ASKED WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAD DONE SINCE THEN TO IMPROVE THE SITUation.
BEFORE THE SEJM’S ADJOURNMENT FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, PRIME MINISTER SKLADKOWSKI ANNOUNCED HE WOULD MAKE A STATEMENT ON THE JEWISH QUESTION AND GENERAL MINORITY PROBLEMS DURING THE DEBATE ON THE INTERIOR MINISTRY’S BUDGEt.
POLISH JEWS WERE URGED YESTERDAY BY A CONFERENCE OF JEWISH SOCIAL WORKERS NOT TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR IN VIEW OF THE DIRE NEED OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES THE MONEY THEY WOULD SPEND ON ENTERTAINMENT.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED OFFICIALLY THAT THE INDEPENDENT SOCIAL LABOR PARTY HAS BEEN DECLARED ILLEGAL. ONE OF ITS LEADERS, DR. JOSEPH KRUK, WAS RECENTLY ARRESTED AND IS NOW BEING HELD IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP AT KARTUZ-BEREZA.
COURTS IN CRACOW AND LODZ YESTERDAY SENTENCED MORE THAN EIGHTY NATIONALISTS TO JAIL TERMS FOR VIOLENCE IN CONNECTION WITH PICKETING OF JEWISH SHOPS. FIFTEEN WERE GIVEN FROM THREE TO SEVEN DAYS EACH BY A CRACOW COURT. FOUR WERE SENTENCED TO ONE MONTH EACH IN LODZ, WHILE 67 OTHERS WERE PLACED UNDER PREVENTIVE ARREST OF TWO TO SEVEN DAYS EACH.
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