In an effort to combat anti-Jewish sentiment among the Polish population, the Commission on National Minorities in Poland is calling a special conference of government officials, Communist Party officials and Jewish representatives to be held in the city of Stettin, where there is a considerable Jewish population, it was reported here today from Warsaw.
Invited to the conference will be city and district attorneys general, representatives of the courts, and other Polish officials. Many of these officials have been repeatedly accused of conniving at “unsocialist” practices like “anti-Semitism, chauvinism, racism, and discrimination, “the report declares.
A statement issued by the Commission on National Minorities declared: “Many problems face various national minorities, among whom are Germans, Greeks, Ukrainians and Jews. However, on the basis of reports from the Jewish population, it is clear that chauvinism and nationalism have affected the Jewish people most of all, Large sections of the working class and intelligentsia have been contaminated by the filthy streams of reaction and falsely-nationalistic tendencies.
“In many instances.” the Commission’s statement pointed out, “racists and anti-Semites violate socialist law and practice zoological anti-Semitism, while law enforcement agencies do nothing about these illegal acts. These agencies fail to apply the punitive measures available under the law. There are still, after repeated warnings, many cases in which the courts and few enforcement administrators know who the guilty parties are but take no steps to apprehend the them.”
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