The Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish Sejm has received a report from Wlocaweck describing the action of the local officials who three times interfered with local Community elections.
The report declared: “Following the Community elections of 1931, in Wloclaweck there was elected as head of the communal administration Simon Srebarnik, a member of the Mizrachi, with Herman Levi, a general Zionist, as deputy chairman. . . . These elections were not, however, confirmed by the Polish authorities who ordered new elections.
“The second elections produced the same result which the Polish authorities once more failed to approve. When a third election produced the same results as the two previous elections, the authorities appointed their own nominees as chairman and deputy chairman of the Community, H. Krushinski and H. Janower, both adherents of the Agudath Israel.”
The Agudath Israel is the pro-government party. The action of the authorities was followed by the expulsion of the remaining members of the Community administration and the submission of a protest to the authorities in Warsaw against the official interference with their rights.
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