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Credit facilities were denied the Jewish Students’ Credit Cooperative of Warsaw because the cooperative does not admit to membership all groups of Jewish students, Louis Oungre, general manager of the Jewish Colonization Association and one of the directors of the Joint-Ica Foundation, who was on a visit here, explained.
Two delegates of the Jewish Students’ Credit Cooperative of Warsaw called at the office of the Foundation in Poland to furnish information on the activities of the Cooperative after it had applied to the Foundation for an allotment. The representative of the office of the Foundation explained to them how to compile the figures and data for a written petition to be submitted to the Foundation. At the same time, he expressed doubt whether the Foundation could grant a credit to the Students’ Cooperative, the reason being that the Foundation is granting credits for economically productive purposes only. The representative of the Foundation further stated that the Foundation had hitherto granted no credits to any Student’s Credit Cooperatives, as it considered them philanthropic institutions. There was a difference of opinion about this matter.
The representative of the Foundation further pointed out that the Foundation granted credits only to such Cooperatives which served, not a certain class or group, but the entire Jewish population of the city. Before granting credits to some Co-operatives, the Foundation has demanded that as condition of receiving the credit, these Cooperatives should serve all Jews of their cities should serve all Jews of their cities and not members of one organization or group. Only after this condition had been fulfilled, did these Cooperatives receive the credits of the Foundation.
The delegates of the Students’ Cooperative stated that according to Article 6 of their charter, every Jewish student could be admitted as a member. Consequently the students affiliated with the “Federation of Poles of Mosaic Faith” were not eligible for membership. Thereupon the representative of the office of the Foundation declared that the Foundation had never granted a credit to a Co-operative, Which excludes Jews of a different group. The Foundation would certainly wish that no discrimination should be made against any group of Jewish students.
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