LOOTING OF JEWS' SHOPS. GENUINE GRIEVANCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1911, Page 5

LOOTING OF JEWS' SHOPS. GENUINE GRIEVANCES.

JEWISH NEWSPAPER DEPRECATES EXTORTION. (Received August 26, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 25th August-. According to a correspondent, of the Record, naturalisation papers show that the Jews established at Glamorgan and on the Monmouth border were imported in recent yeats- by theii 1 foreign cohipatriots. The latter, beginning as pedlarsi, soon became shopkeepers and landlords. The populace were incensed against many of the Jews, who, under pretext of the railway strike, raised the prices of perishable products, and found that while the charges relating to property owneTs were baseless as regards any considerable section of the Jews, they were only too well substantiated in some individual cases. Hence a handle was provided for anti-Jewish demonstrations. The paper adds : "It, behoves the Jews to deal drastically with their own members who constitute a danger to Jewry." [The Jews were accused of exacting exorbitant houee-rents, of having made a monopoly of several classes of trade, such as furnishing, clothing, and jewellery, and of compelling their tenants to obtain furniture from them on the hire system. It was stated that many of the poorest were evicted.]