Polish Jews of the intellectual class are unable to obtain employment even as street sweepers or snowcleaners, a survey by the newly formed Union of Unemployed Intellectuals has revealed. The municipality department which employs the snow-cleaners for this city is swamped with requests for employment from jobless Jewish teachers, students, bookkeepers and secretaries, many with university degrees. The survey of the Union admits that there is little hope of these unemployed obtaining posts with the government and no possibility of private employment due to the present financial crisis. The Union, the report states, is besieged by these penniless Jews, who, having failed to receive employment temporarily at least in the street cleaning department, plead for a chance to do some work to keep themselves alive.
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