The conversation with the Prime Minister, Colonel Slawek, on the need of giving effect to the most pressing of the Jewish postulates (reported in yesterday’s J.T.A. Bulletin) was very satisfactory, Deputy Rabbi Dr. Thon, the President of the Club of Jewish Deputies, declared to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here to-day. Rabbi Thon said that he was leaving now for Cracow, where he is Rabbi of the Community, and when he returns to Warsaw next week, the conversations with the Prime Minister will be continued.
A modification of the Compulsory. Sunday Closing Law; to enable the Jews who keep closed on Saturday to pursue their business for a number of hours on Sundays and Christian holidays, facilities for Jews to obtain employment in the State service, which at present is practically closed to Jews, and a reduction of the turnover-tax, which imposes a heavy burden on the commercial and industrial sections of the population, in which the Jews are largely represented, and which is tending to intensify the economic distress among Polish Jewry, were the principal demands put to the Prime Minister by Dr. Thon and Dr. Rosmarin, the Vice-President of the Jewish Club of Deputies.
POLISH GOVERNMENT URGED TO CALL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS ALL PROBLEMS AFFECTING POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS AND WAYS AND MEANS OF REBUILDING JEWISH PRODUCTION: PROPOSAL ENDORSED BY POLISH AMBASSADOR IN UNITED STATES.
The Government has meanwhile had forwarded on to-day from the Federation of Polish Jews in America, and the Goodwill Committee of Poles and Jews in America the proposal endorsed recently by M. Filipcwicz, the Polish Ambassador in the United States, that the Government should call a round-table conference of Jewish and non-Jewish leaders and experts in Poland, with the participation of representatives of the American Goodwill Committee of Jews and Poles, at which all the problems affecting Polish-Jewish relations shall be discussed, and ways and means found for the rebuilding and upbuilding of Jewish production.
The proposal was put to the Ambassador at a conference which he had recently in New York with a delegation headed by Dr. Joseph Tennenbaum, the President of the Polish-Jewish Goodwill Committee in America. The Ambassador promised to submit to his Government the views expressed together with his personal endorsement of the advisability of calling such a conference. He also envisaged a new era of legislation by his Government, tending to a just apportionment of taxation and a removal of discrimination in employment, in Governmental positions, and the abrogation of the Czaristic laws in the near future.
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