Twenty-three employers were fined or sentenced to jail terms today for violating the employment provisions of the anti-Jewish law. Gyula Csikszentimrei, a Hungarian Lawyer, was sentenced to 60 days imprisonment and fined 500 pengoes as a repeated offender.
The law limits the proportion of Jewish intellectual workers to six per cent of the total number of employees of a concern and prohibits employment of a Jew in an establishment in which there are fewer than 17 employees. Csiksze? was unable to find a satisfactory Hungarian clerk and hired a Jew in defiance of the law.
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