Flood of Anti-jewish Bills Being Prepared in Poland

The Senate today enacted a law prohibiting Jews from selling vegetables and dairy products as a tide of anti-Semitic legislation brought forth proposals for taxing Jews emigrating to Palestine and for tightening divorce laws.

Rejecting amendments offered by Senator Trockenheim, the Senate adopted the dairy bill passed by the Sejm (lower house) last week, while having before it, with its committee’s approval, a bill to restrict kosher slaughtering.

Anti-Semitic deputies prepared for introduction into the Sejm of a bill to tax Jews going to Palestine twenty-five per cent of their total capital, a measure markedly similar to Nazi decrees.

The bill provides that emigrants to the Holy Land deposit their entire capital in a State bank, which would permit them to withdraw it, minus the tax, to be used only for purchasing Polish products.

While Jews expressed fears that the tax bill would and emigration of capitalists to Palestine, anti-Semitic excesses continued throughout the country, marked by bombing of the Jewish Community’s offices in the town of Nowysacz and the razing of a synagogue in Wilno.

In Nowysacz, near Cracow, a boy and girl, both adherents of the anti-Semitic Nationalist Party, were arrested on suspicion of having thrown the bomb.

Anti-Semites who forced their way into the Antokol synagogue in Wilno completely wrecked the interior, tore up books and scrolls, but did not disturb the ark of the covenant.

Janina Prystor, wife of the Senate’s president and author of the anti-shechita measure, began grooming for introduction into the Sejm a divorce bill which would affect Jewish religious observances.

It would set up more stringent divorce laws which would be extended even to members of faiths that do not make divorce difficult to obtain. A uniform divorce law would be substituted for the present procedure, under which religious communities follow their own precepts on divorce.