Breslau Labor Court Forbids Firing Jews

The labor court here today declared illegal the recent mass dismissal of the Jewish employees of the Blasse department stores, who were dismissed on the pretext that anti-Hitler inscriptions had been found in the lavatories.

The Nazi proprietor of the store, who took over the business from the Jewish owners last May, yesterday argued in court that both the insulting inscriptions and the boycott of the store because it employed Jews, justified the dismissals of the Jewish employees. The court, however, pointed out that it had not been established that any of the Jewish employees wrote the inscriptions and since the Nazi owner had not dismissed the Jewish workers when he took over the business last May, there was no reason for dismissing them now.