Thw government has given formal approval to the organization, Land and Handicraff, which was formed last week by representatives of the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, the Federation of Jewish Ex-Soldiers, the Revival Movement of Jewish Germans and a number of Jewish youth organizations in Germany for the purpose of centraling the entire German Jewish land settlement and vocational reconstruetion activities.
Recognizing the importance of these tasks for the present and future of German Jewish life, the statement of policy adopted by the new organization discloses that the bodies signing this statement declare their adhesion to the organization, Land and Artisanship, and will each send a representative to its executive council. The scope of this orpanization, to which they promise their co-operation, embraces finding, administering and expanding the opportunities for German Jews to live under present conditions in German, supervising and effecting a process of shifting the occupational structure of German Jewry as speedily as possible by making use of every German Jew who has been able to remain in his occupation to help every German Jew who has to be found a new economic opening, and training the new generation who find themselves barred from the free choice of occupations and are compelled to-day to enter only such vocations as they find available.
The new organization will work in collaboration with the Hechahitz, but while the Hechahitz will train Jewish youths for settlement in Palestine, it will concentrate on training those Jewish youths who cannot or will not leave Germany.
The formation of the organization was largely stimulated by recent instructions issued by the Federal Ministries of Economics, Labor and Interior, to all chambers of artisans that there must be no discrimination between Jews and non-Jews in artisanship.
In view of the instructions issued by National Socialist Party headquarters yeaterday that members of the party must not obey the governemt orders modifying anti-Jewish discriminations, the work of the new organization appears likely to encounter much opposition and serious obstacles.
The local commissars of the National Socialist party have in accordance with headquarters instructions, already started the campaign against the orders of the Reich goverment in respect to artisanship, and artisans are being warned that they must not employ any non-Aryan apprentices. In some instances artisans are threatened that their licenses will be withdrawn if they take on Jewish apprentices.
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