Investigations conducted by the committee on economic problems of the American Jewish Congress disclose that there is no ground to the complaint which has been made in some quarters that the Western Union Telegraph Company, in its metropolitan division, discriminates against Jews as employes, it was announced yesterday.
In a report submitted to the first meeting of the new administrative committee by Rabbi J. X. Cohen, chairman of the committee on economic problems, and made today, he declared that exactly the reverse situation is true and that upwards of twenty per cent of the 4,000 employes of the metropolitan division of the company are Jewish.
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