The letter addresses the behavior of Muslim workers working in restaurants and hotels in the province of Constantine. Reports the lack of discipline of the workers and their more unwillingness to work and fulfill their role: they prefer to earn in the booming black market. An atmosphere of "revolution" in the air among the Muslim population.
USA National Archives File no. MMD145023
US Holocaust Memorial Archive 745023
June 10, 1943
Intelligence and political landscape report from Lt. Col. Harvey S. Gerry, Commanding Officer Tunisian Detachment, to Minister Robert D. Murphy on the subject of Tunisia. Murphy details the various grievances and political positions of Tunisia’s different peoples. He goes on to describe the difficulties the Americans face there, including the strong war-time black market that emerged, the use of ration cards and the faulty distribution system for civilian supplies at the time the Americans entered Tunisia
Archives Benazaraf, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, Box 2, Folder 13, doc 8
Article at La Vigie Marocaine on sanctions against shops that sold items in the black market.
Ben Azaraf Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Box 2, file 13, document 3.Article dated from 10.1.1942, "Petit Marocain"' on the struggle against the black market and the adopted sanctions in Casablanca.
Ben Azaraf Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Box 2, File 13, Document 7.
Article dated 17.12.1941, "Petit Marocain" reporting on the new sanctions against black market merchants.
Ben Azaraf Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Box 2, file 13, document 8.Article dated 5.12.1941, "La Vigie Marocaine" on sanctions and penalties against the black market traders in Casablanca with a detailed list of businesses and their owners.
Ben Azaraf Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Box 2, file 13, document 9.Article dated 11.3.1942' "La Vigie Marocaine", on sanctions and penalties against black market merchants of Casablanca (list of the businesses and their owners included)
Ben Azaraf Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Box 2, file 13, document 55.
Article dated 27.10.1941, "La Vigie Marocaine", Meknes, on Mr. Vray, inspector for the distribution of fabrics in the city guilty for selling them on the black market.
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