Mr. Elijah Mazur, the President of the Warsaw Jewish Community, has resigned his position, following the adoption of a resolution by the Community Administrative Board, declaring that he was not entitled to negotiate in matters affecting the reduction of the salaries of the Community officials, without special authorisation from the Board empowering him to do so.
The Vice-President, Mr. Leiner, has also handed in his resignation, as an expression of solidarity with the President.
The majority bloc on the Board of the Community immediately held a meeting and decided not to accept the resignations, and has expressed confidence in Mr. Mazur.
The members of the Community Board had demanded the calling of the meeting in order to consider the action of the President, who had, according to reports in the press, announced, to the employees of the Community that their salaries would be reduced by 40 per cent., and that they would not receive this year any special Passover payments. Complaints were made that he had acted entirely on his own initiative, without consulting anyone, and also that if reductions were necessary, they should not be made on the eve of Passover.
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