The anti-Jewish boycott agitation which at one time was a feature of Polish life, being conducted by the antisemitic organisation Rozwoj and the now defunct antisemitic paper “Dwa Grosze”, has after a long interval been reopened to-day by the “Gazeta Warszawska”, the organ of the antisemitic National Democratic Party.
The misery of the Polish shopkeeping and merchant class is not due only to the economic depression and the heavy burden of taxation, the “Gazeta” writes, but mostly to the Jewish competition. For that reason Polish shopkeepers and merchants must look upon the Jewish shopkeeper and merchant not as a sufferer from a common distress and an ally, but as an enemy who must be fought with every weapon possible. All joint action between Jewish and non-Jewish merchants and shopkeepers must therefore be abandoned, it says, and there should be no relations whatever between them.
The “Gazeta Warszawska” is alone in its campaign, even those newspapers which are unfriendly to the Jews, having for years avoided anything suggesting a boycott agitation realising how great is the misery of the Jewish trading class.
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