Charge Authorities Use Pressure on Jewish Population in Polish Election

Chassidic Rebbe Urges Support for Government List (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

That the Polish authorities are exercising pressure on the Jewish population with regard to its attitude in the forthcoming elections was charged in a report of the Jewish campaign committee of the national minorities bloc in the district of Biala-Podlaska.

The committee, in a report to the central committee in Warsaw, charged that the district chief called a meeting of rabbis and members of kehillah executives of the region, instructing them to refuse permission to the minorities bloc to hold mass meetings and assemblies in the synagogues and houses of study which are the property of the community. He recommended at the same time that all support be given to the list of the Agudah-Volks party bloc. The committee charged that the district chief threatened the Jewish population with reprisals if these instructions were ignored. Several of the rabbis, the committee stated, have compiled with the instructions and issued a call to their followers to support the list given preference by the authorities.

Support for the Government party or the so-called Pilsudski list on the part of Jewish voters was fore-shadowed today by the publication of an appeal issued by the Alexanderer rebbe.

In his statement, the Rebbe, who has many followers in Warsaw and in Lodz, urges his followers to vote for the Pilsudski list. A vote cast for the government list will be in compliance with the command of the Prophet Jeremiah: “Seek the peace of the city wherein you dwell,” the Rebbe declared.

The Sunday issue of the “Hajnt,” the paper which advocates support for the national minorities bloc, was again confiscated by the authorities.