THE NATIONAL PEASANTS PARTY, HITHERTO CONSIDERED THE STRONGEST DEMOCRATIC FORCE IN RUMANIA, TODAY JOINED THE ANTI-SEMITIC FORCES WITH A DECLARATION OF ITS PRESIDENT, JON MIHALACHE, THAT “THE SUPREMACY OF RUMANIAN LABOR AND THE ABOLITION OF PARASITIC EXPLOITATION WILL SOLVE THE JEWISH PROBLEM.”
TWENTY-FOUR JEWS, MEANWHILE, WERE REPORTED INJURED IN A RECURRENCE OF DISORDERS IN THE TRANSYLVANIAN TOWN OF TIGHINA. SEVERAL OF THEM WERE REMOVED TO THE HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION. THE DISTURBANCES AROSE FROM A FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN THE JEWISH MACCAB IS AND
THE RUMANIAN TRAJAN TEAM. ANTI-SEMITES WITH CLUBS AND BRASS-KNUCKLES HALTED THE GAME AND ATTACKED JEWISH SPECTATORS AND MOLESTED THE JEWISH PLAYERS. FIFTEEN ARRESTS WERE MADE.
MIHALACHE’S STATEMENT, MADE BEFORE A MEETING OF 10,000 SUPPORTERS AT TOPOLOVENI, STRENGTHENED THE BELIEF THAT THE NATIONAL PEASANTS PARTY WOULD INTRODUCE A LAW “FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL LABOR” SHOULD THE PARTY BE VICTORIOUS AT THE NEXT ELECTION IN DECEMBER AND BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE FORMATION OF A GOVERNMENT.
IT IS THE DUTY OF THE PARTY TO TAKE MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF RUMANIANS, MIHALACHE SAID. POINTING OUT THAT IN TOPOLOVENI ALL JEWISH TRADERS WERE REPLACED BY RUMANIANS “THANKS TO THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT,” HE SAID, “I WOULD LIKE RUMANIA TO BE LIKE TOPOLOVENI.”
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