The minister of finance today authorized the collection of a compulsory Jewish community tax and ordered the fiscal authorities in the various towns and cities to collect it from Jewish citizens for the benefit of the Jewish community. This tax is to be enforced just as state taxes are. This action is the result of an intervention by the Jewish Parliamentary Club. This is the first time that such a measure to promote the development of the Jewish communities has been officially undertaken by the government.
Meanwhile Senator Niemirower, speaking in the Senate, protested against the reduction in the state’s grant to the Jewish communities. Asking that the ministers of finance and cults refuse their sanction to such an injustice he urged an increased grant in the coming year. The minister of finance said that the state of the government’s finances made the reduction necessary and he voiced the hope that a better arrangement would be possible. He promised, however, to give the matter his full at-
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