Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
POLAND RESOLVES
| TO ASSIST JEWS
oint Committee Advises New
N Occupations for Many
( OF Race.

Rrecial Dispatch 70 The Star.
Z WARSAW. November 24-Offlcial
aaolsnd formerly thought 10 be era
Ele of sntagoniSm. is taking measures
IN reorganize the economic life of her
4Jewish citizens. who are suffering from
The effects of the economic crisis al
t5icting the world.
According 10 the last census thefe
hre 2 I'll GAG Jews i'm Poland or lO.8
per cent of the entire population. OF
that number 939 486 are actual bread
WINNERS. supporting the remainder.
The hard times for Polish Jews be-
Syan as early as 1922 They strue-
Fled on with praiseWorthy perseve<s
&euce received assistance from Amerl-
gran Jews, but no power on earth couid
Mevive that which became deao-the
Arommercial relations with Russia, Whlch
Arountry in pre-war days, when Polish
Ananufacturp supplied the enormous
Knarket was the chief source of earn
Aprs for Jewish middlemen and mer-
chants in Poland.
Committee Works Out Program
4 Poland absorbed with the stabilize
ajon Of her national life, did not devote
snuch attention to the needs OF her ma
Nional minority Last Summer, however
a mixed committee, composed of prom
Snent men Gentiles and Jews was
formed and it has Just. worked out a
5a1old program. consisting Of a complete
REORGANIZATION of economic life Of Jews
BIO take them into new channels OF &C
4t;vitv. That plan is hailed here As a
sRsort of a new exodus of Jews and a
x5resh Journey to a new promised land.
i It is a dawn of another era of Polish
s&.Jewry. and leaders OF the Jewish COM
Pmunity here see in it great promise.
) - I'D rnStTicfi0ng
45mposed on Jews in bygone centuries,
& and the Czarist government proved 10
8be particularly ferocious in that respect,
3aln1ost all professions of creative kind
98Were closed to Jews, who consequently
/. had to fall back on occupations OF I'M
kind. becoming shopKeepers
4middlemen and money lenders. since
t11owever vitality and intelligence are IN
born in them. they represent valuable
human material, and the Polish COM
munity desires now to give them
helping hand.
Proposes to Help.
The committee proposes to help the
200 900 small Jewish workshops exist
ing In Poland to find markets at home
and abroad for their wares. Commerce
in Poland can be developed. after all,
considering that only 3.8 per cent of the
A. NANA~'
whereas the figures in other countries
are: United States. 1912 per cent; Great
Britain, 1919 per cent; France, 10.4 per
cent. and Germany. III per cent.
The second point of the plan is to put
more Jews on the land. There are at
present $4,000 Jewish homesteads in
Poland. and that number could be great
" increased as the process of splitting
up large estates goes on in Poland.
A larger proportion of Jews also must
be trained in trade schools for adults,
and the number of such schools are in
Creasing in Poland all the time Accord
ing to the survey Just concluded, tens of
thousands of Jewish families could be
profitably employed in handicrafts, such
as manufacture Of homespun materials.
lace. etc. Fewer merchants and more
producers, according to the view of the
committee. means a better future for
the Jewry in Poland.
(Copyright 1871