Jewish Communists Start Anti Shechita Drive

(J. T. A. Mail Service)

The Jewish Communists in Minsk have started a determined fight against Shechita. At present in all the slaughtering houses in Minsk the animals are killed according to the Jewish method. The Jewish Communist leaders in Minsk contend that this is a waste of money and that the budget of the slaughtering houses could be cut down very considerably if the Shochetim and the Mashgichim are dismissed. The practice of the Minsk municipal slaughtering houses of killing their animals according to the Jewish method, they say, leads to the maintenance of a number of Rabbis and other Jewish religious functionaries at the cost of the Government.

The anti-Shechita fight has been going on for nearly four months, but so far the Jewish Communists have made no progress. All killing in the slaughtering houses in Minsk is still carried out according to the Jewish method. The leaders of the local Communist section have now applied to the local Control Inspector demanding an investigation into the Shechita question and urging that an order should be issued that in the slaughtering houses in Minsk animals should not be killed only in accordance with Jewish law.