Unemployment is increasing rapidly among the Jews of Austria owing to their quiet and systematic exclusion from representative positions in that country.
The Unemployment Insurance Institute was reconstituted today without a single Jew being given a place on the board. This automatic process of excluding Jews is going on quietly all over Austria.
Because the exclusions are so arranged that there is no publicity thanks to the strict censorship maintained by the Dollfuss regime, they are attracting little attention outside of Austria, but the economic position of Jewry is gravely endangered there.
At the same time privately-owned firms are also discriminating against Jews, making it next to impossible for a Jew to obtain work anywhere in Austria. Jewish leaders term the unemployment situation among the Jews “catastrophic”.
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