Fearing that the continued anti-Jewish discriminations in commercial fields will increase unemployment this winter, the Minister of Economics, Dr. Kurt Schmitt, not only confirmed Wednesday’s order of non-interference with Jewish firms, but yesterday explicitly disapproved the additional instructions of the chambers of commerce advising Christian firms to display signs that they are German enterprises.
Declaring that the interests of labor come before the Jewish discriminations, Dr. Schmitt prohibited the government offices from issuing such trade signs to German firms and ordered the cancellation of blacklists which the chambers of commerce and various industrial institutions had compiled for anti-Jewish boycott purposes.
However, the changed attitude of the Economics Ministry did not prevent the German Land Trade League, which concluded the agreement with the Palestine orange growers, from coming out today with instructions to eliminate the Jewish traders from the hop trade.
In an order issued to the breweries, the League declared that they must not buy hops from Jews, because it is against the interests of Germany. At the same time, the peasants, particularly in the Helsberg district, near Nuremberg, the richest hop district in Germany, were ordered to stop selling hops to Jews.
In the order to the breweries, the League stresses the declaration that “an end must be put to Jewish domination of this trade, which must be entrusted only to German hands.”
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