Moscow Mass Meeting Welcomes Settlement Plan in Bureya, Slberia

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

At a mass meeting held here last night, addressed by Messre. Merejin, Bruk, and Rashkes, the following resolution was adopted on the subject of the Jewish colonization project in the Bureya region, Siberia.

“This meeting of the Moscow Jewish workers welcomes the decision of the Comzet (Government commission for Jewish land settlement) to set aside the Bureya region in the Far East for a mass colonization of the Jewish urban poor. This decision has a historic significance for the development of the Jewish working masses, for it provides the opportunity of transferring tens of thousands of the Jewish population to productive work in agriculture and industry, will help, them to organize their economic and cultural life and with the proper development of the trans-settlement work will lead also to the creation of an autonomous Jewish centre.

“This meeting also welcomes the decision of the Jewish Colonization Society (Ozet) to assume the heavy pioneer task of carrying through the Jewish land settlement in the Bureya region, This meeting calls upon both Jewish and non-Jewish workers to assist the Soviet Government in every way to realize the work of rebuilding the economic foundations of the life of the Jewish masses, which is part of its national policy and of the Socialist construction of the country. This meeting expresss its conviction that the Jewish poor who have the will to build up a new life in consonance with the Socialist development of our country will not hold back because of the distance of the region and that they will fertilize the land with their toil and sweat and build up in that region a new and flourishing corner of our manypeopled Socialist Soviet Federation.”