A Polish trade week, scheduled to begin today at Czenstochow, which anti-Semites were utilizing to agitate for an anti-Jewish boycott, has been prohibited by the Government authorities, it was learned, after Deputy Israel Sommerstein had demanded of Minister of Interior Raczkiewicz that measures be taken to halt boycott incitement.
Meanwhile, a conference of forty Jewish communities, all Zionist parties and other Jewish organizations heard Jacob Lestchinsky, economist, declare that a third of Poland’s 3,500,000 Jews are suffering from discrimination. The conference was called to plan Polish participation in next Summer’s World Jewish Congress.
The parley discussed the procedure for election of delegates to the congress. Speakers were Dr. Mordecai Nurok, Zionist leader; M. Roiss and R. Kubowitzky.
Police in the town of Otwock today raided a nest of National Radicals, illegal anti-Semitic party, arresting twenty persons.
Deputy Sommerstein’s visit to the Minister of Interior was made in protest continuing agitation throughout the country for an anti-Jewish boycott. He demanded that the Jews be enabled to live a normal life.
After the interview the Jewish deputies’ club issued a communique to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency stating:
“Deputy Sommerstein today described to the Minister of Interior the facts of the present intolerable position of the Jewish population, caused by recent excesses and by the terrorization of the Christian population to boycott Jews. He demanded that the Government take instant measures.
“The Minister of Interior promised to examine Mr. Sommerstein’s data.”
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