Jacob Pistiner, a Jewish Socialist deputy in the Roumanian parliament, died suddenly yesterday at Czernowitz. Deputy Pistiner, who was elected to parliament in 1928 when the present government came into power, has been prominent in urging the government to take more strenuous measures against the anti-Semitic agitation. He was the representative of the Roumanian Socialist Party on the world executive of the Socialist International.
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