A recent Judge Advocate General’s order that “wherever possible” all Jewish employees and soldiers should be given leave on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and other holidays was cited by War Department officials today in reply to charges that Jewish employees had been barred from leave on the New Year Holidays.
The charges were made by the United Federal Workers of America, a left wing CIO union, which said Jewish employees at Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, and at the Brooklyn Army Base and Governors Island in New York had been denied leave for the New Year and that their petitions for permission to take leave without pay were denied.
The War Department said these charges were still under investigation and added that the policy set out in the Judge Advocate General’s order would be emphasized to all unit commanders in anticipation of Yom Kippur.
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