(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
“There is no posibility at present of engaging Jewish railway workers in the State workshops and railways,” declared Mr. P. Romocki, the Polish Minister of Railways, to a delegation of the Jewish Labor Party, Bund, who asked him to find work for a number of Jewish unemployed.
“I am now carrying out the instructions of the Government to enforce economy and I am prohibited from enlarging the personnel of the railways,” the Minister stated, “but even when this restriction is removed I shall be compelled to give preference to the discharged soldiers and to those railway workers who have been dismissed following the policy of reducing expenses.
“However,” the Minister added, “there will be no restriction for religious or national reasons on qualified engineers and people of the legal profession.”
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