The Rumanian Government, in accordance with its policy of ousting Jews from industry and commerce, this week deprived 779 Jews of their “master’s labor license,” thus forcing them to close their shops. The persons affected are shoemakers, tailors, and other self-employed handicraft workers.
Figures on the wholesale dismissal of Jews from Rumanian commercial and industrial enterprises carried out between November, 1940, and May, 1943, have been published by the Rumanian Minister of Labor, according to a German broadcast.
The Minister’s statement says that out of a total of 8,126 firms, 3,702 have exchanged all their Jewish employees for Rumanians. In Bucharest alone the number of Jewish employees has decreased from 17,906 to 3,018.
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