Indignation reigns among the local Jewish population following the news that the tobacco firm of Lazare Benveniste, which belongs to a Jew, represents a group of German buyers.
Benveniste, who has installed large workshops for the manufacture of tobacco, where some hundreds of workers will be employed, announced that he will engage only non-Jews and declared he is only the simple executor of a German group that has ordered him not to employ Jewish labor. Discontent is marked among Jewish tobacco-factory workmen, who are numerous and find themselves continually unemployed.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
