Representative bodies of Hungarian and German minorities announced today they will protest to the League of Nations against enactment of the law “for the protection of national labor,” which Commerce Minister Valerius Pop announced yesterday would be submitted for King Carol’s signature on June 8.
Jewish groups decided to forward to King Carol a telegram similar to that sent by the Union of Rumanian Jews on March 9, appealing to him to guard constitutional rights of Jews and other minorities.
In a statement yesterday, Commerce Minister Pop said Jews and members of other national minorities under the new law would be permitted to share in trade according to their numerical proportion in the population. He denied that Jews would be excluded from civil service, the courts and the army, declaring the principle of proportional representation will be applied also to those fields.
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