(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The gates of the Jewish communal building in Poland’s capital were stormed yesterday by thousands of Jewish unemployed workers in an attempt to secure relief from the Kehillah.
Members of the board of directors of the Kehillah received a delegation of the unemployed demonstrators, to whom they declared that they are not in a position to extend any relief, because the treasury of the Kehillah is empty. They advised them, however, to apply to the Warsaw City Council which is, under the regulation, compelled to care for both the Polish and Jewish unemployed.
By a recent decision the City Council raised the fare on the city transit lines 5 Groszy, as a special tax for the support of the unemployed.
The storming of the Kehillah gates did not cease until the police was called to disperse the workers. Four mass meetings of the unemployed were called in the evening by the Bund, the Jewish labor party.
Official figures published by the Employment Bureau show that 10,550 persons are unemployed in Warsaw, of whom 2,550 are professionals. The Employment Bureau does not have any record of the unemployed among the Jewish workers.
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