The Polish government is opposed to the efforts of certain anti-Semitic elements in Posen which seek to renew the propaganda of a commercial anti-Jewish boycott, it was stated to the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on good authority.
This statement was made in connection with a despatch of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency dated Warsaw, June 22, describing the boycott propaganda efforts made in Posen and quoting a resolution of the Christian Union of Working Youth, a Catholic labor organization, which held a mass meeting in connection with the Lemberg events and urging an anti-Jewish boycott. The despatch also related that when Jewish traders in Posen cities complained to police officials against the boycott propaganda, they were told that the police found it unnecessary to take any action.
This despatch was misinterpreted in certain circles to mean that the Polish government was asked to intervene in this matter but refused to do so. This was not the case.
The boycott propaganda was carried on only by the National Democratic press, which is opposed to the government, and against the wishes and the policy of the present government. The police commandant who refused to take action on hearing the complaint of the Jewish traders, was merely a minor official, and there is therefore no reason for a generalization that the government refused to take action.
The liberal Polish press is not in sympathy with the boycott propaganda.
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