For the first time since the Galician moderates have taken over the management of the Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish Sejm, the latter voted against the government budget yesterday.
Last year, the Club of Jewish Deputies supported the government budget, with the exception of Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, who did not vote.
As the spokesman for the Club of Jewish Deputies of which he is the president, Dr. Josiah Thon informed the Sejm plenum that the Jewish Deputies are compelled to vote against the budget as a protest against the indifference of the government to the ever-increasing despair of the Jewish population.
Reviewing the economic situation of the Jewish population, which has been the subject of repeated interpellations to the Sejm, Dr. Thon pointed out that the representatives of the government did not even consider it necessary to answer the complaints of the Jews in their reply to the general debate.
For many years, he said, the Kolohoped to break through the indifference of the government, but now it has, lost hope. In view of the ever-growing despair of the Jewish population, it is compelled to vote against the government budget as a protest.
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