A new danger to Jewish business in Poland is seen here in the suggestion made to the Sejm Budget Commission by Deputy Czernichowski that, like artisans, traders show their educational status and record before being admitted to business.
The Endeks, militant anti-Semitic group, at once seized the opportunity to campaign against Jewish merchants. They called me-tings of Polish traders and business people all over the country to win support for their demands. A meeting in Lemberg resolved: First, that traders of the fourth classification, lowest in the scale, must possess at least six years of elementary school edcation and a year in the school of commerce, resulting in a tightening of the period of trade apprenticeship.
Second, that traders in the second and third classification possess at least a secondary school education.
Third, that traders of the first category be graduates of a high school.
Prevailing opinion here looks down upon Hebrew schools (cheders) and does not recognize them as qualified educational institutions. Since admission into officail schools strictly delimits the registration of Jews, Jewish traders fear utter ruin if the provisions of the resolution are enforced.
Meanwhile the medical faculty of the school of medicine here approached the Ministry of Education asking the institution of restrictions barring physicians graduated abroad from general practise in the country. Most of them are Jews unable to study in Poland on account of the numrous clausus.
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