their non-Jewish Polish brethren.” After listing the Jewish complaints against the government, the resolution urges the government of Poland to call at the earliest possible moment a conference of government representatives and the Jewish deputies in the Polish Sejm to consider means for alleviating the plight of Polish Jewry. A copy of the resolution will be forwarded to the Polish Minister in Washington, Tytus Fillipowicz, for transmission to his government in Warsaw.
Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Conference on Immigration Policy in the Hotel Manger, New York, last week, Max J. Kohler, former Assistant United States Attorney, said that he believed “the condition of the Jew is worse in Poland than in Soviet Russia.” His assertion was challenged by Ignace M. Morawski, former attache to the Polish Consulate General; by Dr. Theodore Abel, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, and by Peter Yolles, managing editor of the Polish “Morning World,” who denied that the government in Poland was discriminating against the Jews.
Professor Abel, though admitting that the Polish Jews were poor, denied that this was due to persecution, but claimed that the Jew was suffering together with others from the general economic depression. Mr. Yolles, who admitted that “the situation of the Jew is tragic,” said that this was due not to persecution on account of race or religion, but because the Jews are city dwellers exclusively.
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