Jewish Workers in Russia Drawn into Mining Industries

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A considerable number of young Jewish workers have of late joined the ranks of the coal miners.

A concerted effort is now being made by the Jewish section of the Communist party to draw the unemployed Jewish workers largely into the coal mining industry in accordance with a resolution adopted at the seventh all union conference of the Jewish section of the Communist party.

The resolution as adopted asked the authorities to see to it that in admitting new workers into the coal mining schools, greater attention be paid to young Jewish workers.

The Jewish Communists were also instructed to carry on propaganda with a view to eliminating prejudice among Jewish workers against working in the coal mines.

The annual graduation exercises of the three Jewish educational schools conducted in the Bronx under the auspices of the New York Committee for School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations was held Sunday afternoon at the Ezra Hebrew School. The schools which were represented at the exercises were the Ezra Hebrew School, the Beth-El Hebrew School, and the Emanu-El Hebrew School, there were 24 graduates of the three schools, six coming from the high school department of the Ezra Hebrew School.

Dr. Nathan Stern, rabbi of the West End Synagogue addressed the graduates. Rabbi Jacob B. Pollak director of the Synagogue and School Extension of the Union in N. Y.