A Glasgow Member of Parliament is planning to raise a question in the House of Commons on discrimination by a Scottish builder against prospective Jewish purchasers of homes, it was reported here today.
The M. P., John Rankin, is drafting a question for submission to Parliament and plans to ask Prime Minister Churchill to make a statement for the government on this type of discrimination. He also will ask that the firm, Mctaggart and Mickel, be removed from the official list of builders if it persists in refusing to sell houses to Jews.
The firm was involved in a similar case 20 years ago. When the question was raised in Commons the firm backtracked and the Undersecretary of State for Scotland was able to announce in the House that Mctaggart and Mickel had changed their policy.
At a large public meeting here, Dr. Arnold B. Cowan, a well-known Scottish personality, proposed that counter-measures be taken against golf clubs which discriminated against Jews and against Mctaggart and Mickel. The meeting unanimously supported Dr. Cowan’s proposal.
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