In the June issue of “The Sign of the Shell,” published monthly in the interests of the employes and dealers of the Shell Eastern Petroleum Products, Inc., the company takes occasion to deny published reports that in hiring or discharging employes it has been discriminating against Jews. In a special statement entitled “A Shell Policy,” the company’s organ points out that “there is no desire or attempt to impose restrictions of race or creed upon their employes.”
The statement further adds that “everyone familiar with the history of Shell knows that Jewish capital and able, far-seeing Jewish business men have been and are today factors of the utmost importance in some of the Shell companies” and that “the broad policies of the Shell organization would make impossible any discrimination against Jews, just as it would make impossible any discrimination against Catholics or Protestants.”
The statement is the result of reports published in the Jewish press of this country that the Shell Oil Company in Palestine had dismissed all or most of its Jewish employes in Haifa.
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