According to a decree published in Bucharest newspapers, all private businesses and factories throughout Rumania are given until Dec. 31, 1941, to discharge Jewish employees, regardless of position and qualifications, except for decorated war veterans, volunteers and those who rendered “special services.”
Meanwhile, it is understood that the Iron Guard Government will offer the Jews work in labor battalions in return for a subsistence allowance.
An outfitter for the Rumanian army named Moise Usher Perlman has been arrested, it was reported today, for refusing to trade with Germany and supply the remodeled army with German-type helmets. Until now Rumanian soldiers had been wearing Dutch-style helmets which Perlman imported from Holland.
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