A proposal that French firms be authorized to employ German refugee labor up to thirty-three per cent in order to alleviate the desperate plight of the Jewish and other refugees form Germany is now being examined by competent French authorities, according to an announcement made in the press here.
This proposal comes from Ernst Toller, the German playwright who has been studying conditions among German refugees in France. It has received the whole-hearted support of the League for Human Rights.
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Mr. Toller also proposes that the refugees from Germany be granted identification cards which would enable them to travel in France except in the frontier districts. He also suggests that they be given facilities for naturalization.
Exclusive of the Saar refugees, Mr. Toller estimates that the number of refugees from Germany still living in France is about 15,000, of which 5,000 are without any means of livelihood.
Sixteen million francs have so far been raised to help the German refugees in France. Of this sum, nine million francs came from French Jews, largely from the Rothschilds. The rest came from British, American and Jewish sources. It is estimated that the German refugees in France have spent 450,000,000 francs during the past two years and have invested at least 250,000,000 francs in French enterprises.
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