The Union of polish lawyers today forbade Christian attorneys to represent Jews in cases arising from the nation-wide anti-Jewish boycott. The union adopted a series of demands, including the establishment of special rooms for Jewish lawyers in Polish courts and reduction in the number of Jewish lawyers to correspond to the Jews’ proportion in the population.
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