(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The abolition of anti-Jewish legal disabilities, a relic of the Czaristic regime notwithstanding the ten years’ existence of the Polish republic, has finally been recognized as an urgent matter by a vote in Parliament yesterday.
In the previous parliaments the Jewish deputies have attempted on several occasions to introduce a motion for the abolition of these Czaristic laws, limiting the rights of Jewish citizens in certain fields. Yesterday, the motion of the Jewish deputies was given the character of an urgent measure, by a majority vote overruling the objections of the deputies belonging to the National Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Party.
At the same session a majority consisting of the deputies of the pro-government bloc, the peasant party. Piast, and the Christian Democratic Party, defeated the motion of the Jewish deputies, the national minorities deputies, the Polish Socialist Party and the Radical Peasant Party, Wyzwolenie, to relieve the urban population from the burden of the tax on the business turnover.
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