Complain Against Dismissal of Jewish Bank Officials in Poland

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

A deputation consisting of Senator Trusker and Deputy Wyslicki, representatives of the Jewish Merchants’ Union, called on the director of the State Bank, M. Schmidt protesting that the manner in which the dismissals at the bank were carried out suggested that they was based on religious grounds. This was something which would not be tolerated by the Jewish merchant class, and they would see to it that their funds should not remain on deposit in the State Bank, the deputation declared.

M. Schmidt said that it was wrong to think that national or religious reasons had played any part in the determination of which officials should be dismissed. The directors would, however, go very carefully through the appeals handed in by the dismissed officials and would take into favorable account all the reasons which would justify their being retained at their posts, he stated.

Practically all the officials who have so far been dismissed under the scheme from the State Bank are Jews, several of them hitherto regarded as indispensables, men with the highest qualifications.

There are not many Jews in Poland who occupy official positions, and there is consequently much concern in Jewish circles that the first effect of the Government’s decision to enforce its economy scheme by reducing staffs has been to deprive most of these Jews of their posts.

The endowment of chairs of aeronautics in universities in the West, South and Southwest is proposed by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, which will spend $2,500,000 to foster aeronautical science in the next ten years, it was announced in a tentative report by Harry F. Guggenheim, the President.