An organized campaign got under way today to oust Jews from the meat, poultry and cattle industries. It has for its slogan the charge that the Jews of Germany constitute an “economically unreliable element.”
It was reliably learned that instructions have been issued to railway station masters to inform Nazi farm leaders of the names and addresses of sellers and buyers of cattle loaded from trains. By this means the Nazis will be enabled to discover the names of farmers who are selling cattle to Jews.
The official Reichshahrenstand (food bureau) has also taken measures to oust Jews from the poultry trade, especially as exporters. Non-Jewish importers have been ordered not to deal with Jews on the pretext that Jews are “economically unreliable.”
Jewish meat dealers of foreign citizenship are being informed by non-Jewish importers and wholesalers that they will no longer deal with them because, “being owners of foreign passports there is danger that they might leave Germany without payment of debts.”
It is estimated that the new anti-Jewish drive will affect adversely about 3,500 meat traders.
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