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The absence of Jewish employment from the port transport industry, noted by Ben Tillet in evidence before the Select Committee on Sweating, owed much to violence and intimidation. If a Jew gets work at the Docks, a contemporary observed, he is so jeered and chaffed that he is obliged to give it up.
(David Englander, Policing the Ghetto Jewish East London, 1880-1920,
referring to Select Committee on Sweating; Stallard (1867, pp. 8-9))
Jews could not even obtain employment at London docks, let alone work on a ship.
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