100 Jewish bakehouses have been closed down in Bialystock in the process of enforcing the Government order requiring the mechanisation of the baking industry. Following a special meeting of the City Council, a delegation headed by the President of the Municipality visited the District Governor, M. Koscialkowski, to plead with him not to order any more bakehouses to be closed down. The District Governor promised that no further closing orders would be issued, but held out no hope of those already closed being allowed to reopen.
The Jewish master-bakers throughout Poland are holding a conference here attended by 140 delegates to consider what action can be taken to fight against the danger which threatens them on account of the Government decision to demand a change-over to machine bakeries everywhere in the interests of hygiene and improved production.
The speakers at the conference take the view that they recognise fully the need of modernising the baking industry, but that the Jewish bakers are too poor to be able to introduce all the modern installations insisted on by the Government, and that unless the Government recognises their special difficulties and permits the process to be gradual, or provides the Jewish bakers with credit loans to enable them to purchase the new installations, pointing out that in many cases such credits are provided by the Government to non-Jewish bakers, the Jewish bakers will find themselves unable to carry on their work and thrust out of their present positions and deprived of their means of livelihood.
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