An attempt to establish an anti-Semitic organization of Brooklyn postal workers has been uncovered in its early stages with the result that it has probably been frustrated, Frank J. Quayle Jr., Brooklyn Postmaster, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
About six weeks ago a few postal workers began approaching others with a proposal to form an association excluding Jews, Quayle said. The move was brought to his notice promptly, he said, and he denounced it as un-American in addresses at two meetings of postal employes. The first occasion was the annual convocation of Jewish postal workers at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, April 12, when Quayle said, he announced that “such an organization will not be permitted.” The second was at the annual communion breakfast of the Post Office Holy Name Society at the Hotel St. George, when he declared: “I am quite sure those of us who are members of the Catholic faith, particularly of the Holy Name Society, under no circumstances would countenance a move of that kind.”
There are 4,200 Post Office Department employes in Brooklyn, of whom 1,400 are Jews. The number of persons involved in the scheme was “apparently negligible,” Quayle said, and no overt anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in the Brooklyn postal organization. He said he did not know whether the organizers had any affiliation with outside anti-Semitic groups.
Postmaster Albert Goldman of New York said that no such situation exists in his jurisdiction.
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