A 3,000,000-zloty ($600,000) “work relief” project for Polish Jews to which the Polish Government will contribute 1,000,000 zlotys was announced today by David J. Sehweitzer, European vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, at a press conference.
The Polish contribution, believed to be the first outright Government subsidy for Jewish relief, will be contingent on the allotment by the J.D.C. of 1,000,000 zlotys and the raising of an equal sum among the Jews in Poland. The J.D.C. quota has already been budgeted, Mr. Schweitzer said. About 600,000 zlotys of the local total is in sight and the remainder is considered assured, he added.
Mr. Schweitzer, who arrived in New York from Paris last week for a three-week visit stated that the project would enable large numbers of Jews to find new forms of eking out a living. The funds will be used for starting new industries where impoverished Jews will be employed, he explained. Plans for finding outlets for the goods produced have not been completed he said.
The J.D.C. “will lend its full cooperation” to the recently formed Council for German Jewry, Mr. Schweitzer declared, but added that in cooperating, the J.D.C. would not deviate from its present program.
As far as he knew, Mr. Schweitzer said, the council had as yet considered no definite schemes for expatriating Jews from Germany. “What is envisaged is an enlarged program,” he assorted, pointing out that the J.D.C. could not adequately participate in such a program if it did not fill its $3,500,000 quota.
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