Resolutions asking governmental limitation of the number of Jewish lawyers to the same percentage Jews occupy in the racial composition of Poland were passed here today by a congress of 500 lawyers, the Havas News Agency reported.
Of 7,190 lawyers in Poland, 3,806 — or 53 per cent — are Jewish, the congress was told. In Lwow the proportion of Jewish lawyers was reported to be 73 percent. However, in Poznan only six per cent of the lawyers were Jewish, it was said.
The resolutions asked that wherever the percentage of Jewish lawyers was above the ratio of Jews to the total population, no more be admitted to practice at the bar. Moreover, the Government was asked to apply the same rule to the admission of Jews to law schools.
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