(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The distribution of bread to unemployed Jewish workers was suspended here yesterday due to a general strike of the Jewish social workers.
The strike was called by workers in the Jewish Community Board, the Orphans Home, the Oze, the Jewish Health Society; the Zedakah Gedolah, the Federation of Jewish Charities; and the workers in the Jewish cemeteries.
The demands of the strikers are that the institutions pay up the past due salaries and increase the salaries of the social workers.
Much hardship is resulting from the strike. Tragic scenes took place at the cemetery when relatives had to dig the graves for their dead.
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