Das Schwarze Korps, organ of the German elite guard, attacks the decision of a Berlin court ruling that payment for holidays must be made to Jews since the rules governing wages and holiday payment are “not concerned with personal matters and racial origin.”
The Nazi organ declares that because of a labor shortage, Jews remaining in Germany must also be put to work, but “Jews are rewarding German magnanimity by legal actions for full payment for national and other holidays.”
The paper cites with satisfaction a different ruling, that of the labor court at Velbert, Rhineland, rejecting a Jew’s claim for Christmas and New Year’s pay on the ground that the regulations stipulate holiday payments are to be made to “collaborators in the Fuehrer’s work of reconstruction,” which, the court said, could not be interpreted as including Jews.
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