The 250,000 Jews of this industrial city, chiefly unemployed textile workers, today were handed over to the tender mercies of the Endek party, bitterest anti-Jewish group in Poland, as a result of the Endek’s victory in the municipal elections.
The offices of city mayor, two vice mayoralities and the five municipal executive offices, went to Endek nominees.
Only two Jews and one government party man will represent the minority parties on the Lodz municipal council.
Yesterday Deputy F. Rottenstreich declared in the Sejm that at least 30 percent of the Jews of Lodz are actually starving and accused the government of doing nothing to ameliorate their condition.
The victory of the Endeks has aroused the gravest fears of severe anti-Jewish discrimination in every section of the Jewish population.
Emergence of Lodz as an important world textile center is entirely the result of Jewish enterprise, it was pointed out, and discriminatory legislation against the Jews in industry has caused widespread unemployment and suffering among the Jewish masses.
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