Figures on the growth of discrimination against Jews in employment have been revealed here by Rabbi J. K. Cohen, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Discrimination of the American Jewish Congress. The investigation conducted by this Committee, he said, has shown that 91 of 100 Employment Agencies visited by Jewish investigators posing as applicants for positions as book-keepers, clerks, stenographers, and the like, informed them that they were unacceptable because they were Jews.
Eighty-nine per cent. of 400 prominent corporations and business establishments in New York prefer Christians only as their employees, Rabbi Cohen declared. Conditions will become even more serious, he said, unless definite remedial measures are evolved.
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