(J. T. A. Mail Service)
A survey to obtain exact data on the present economic position of the Jewish population in Soviet Russia has been undertaken by a special Economic Commission of the Central Committee of the Ort in Moscow. The commission also includes members of other social organizations. It is engaged in collecting and preparing data and is also carrying on independent investigations into the economic position of the Jewish population of the Soviet Union.
In the course of the past few months. the Commission has worked upon the data of the censuses of 1897, 1920 and 1923. The Commission has also gone into the questions of Jewish co-operation and the prospects of the Jewish agricultural colonization movement, etc.
The Commission will proceed to work upon the data of the census of 1926, which will provide information regarding the distribution of the Jewish population in the Soviet Union, and the occupational distribution of the Jewish population and their participation in the various branches of artisanship. Investigations will be carried on in certain specified areas in the Ukraine and White Russia, which will be taken as typical centres of Jewish artlsanship industry. The Commssion will also investigate the position of the Jewish population in the small towns and the participation of Jews in the trade unions.
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