The Jewish question must be solved at an early date or anti-Jewish excesses in Austria are certain, it was stated by State Councillor Leopold Kunschak at a mass meeting last night in Koncert Haus.
Kunschak, who is editor of the “Neue Ordnung,” and president of the Christian Workers and Employes’ Union, demanded that Jewish influence be ousted from the economic and spiritual life of the nation.
Kunschak recently published in his periodical the draft of an ordinance regulating the status of Jews in Austria which he had prepared fifteen years ago jointly with the late Dr. Seipel, Premier and leader of the Christian Socialist Party. He had withheld introduction of the measure on request of Dr. Seipel, who had asked him to hold it in abeyance until “the proper time.”
According to the Kunschak ordinance, the Jews would be recognized as a nation by the Austrian Republic and hence would enjoy full legal and other protection as a national minority.
Another provision of the Kunschak law would introduce the numerus clausus in the civil service, educational and legal fields. Separate electoral colleges for Jews would be established by his ordinance, Jewish children not attending Jewish schools would be admitted to the general schools on a numerus clausus basis.
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