New York, Dec. 27.
Nazi propaganda in the United States, since the coming into power of Herr Adolf Hitler in Germany, has led to increasing discrimination inst the employment of Jews by American firms.
This was the revelation made to-in the report upon unemploynent among Jews, published by the American Jewish Congress. Mr. J. Cohen, president of the Economic Problems Committee of the Congress, is the author of this report.
He investigated ninety major employment agencies in the United States before compiling his report found that while 56 did not erentiate upon the religious question sixteen were openly anti-Semitic while 35 always asked of their clients indications upon their "religious preferences."
Mr, Cohen also found that many employment agencies placed Jews in jobs only after all others had been placed. Jews were the first to be dismissed in times fo economic depression, he added in his report. He emphasized that in New York alone, 21 per cent. of the young Jewish population, or 115000 young men and women, are unemployed this very day. Of those, 40,000 have never yet been employed anywhere.
Studying "positions vacant" advertisements in newspapers, Mr. Cohen found that notices including ihe words, "Christians only," were on the increase.
This anti-Semitic trend caused by Nazi propaganda in the United States has already roused some reaction in American political quarters. There are now many politicians who advocate that the Government take measures to stop the "non-American" agitation of racist speakers such as Father Coughlin, who is one of the most virulent in the U.S.—Havas.
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