Jewish Colonists Ask for Further Credits and Additional Houses

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Further credits and more houses were demanded by the delegates from the Jewish colonies to the All Ukrainian Agrciultural Collective’s convention which was opened in Charkoff.

“We cannot develop our farms without sufficient houses and without long term loans,” the Jewish delegate stated.

The Far Eastern Soviet has offered the Jewish pioneers in Bureya several hundred desiatin rice plantations located near Yekaterina-Nikolsk. The land is well cultivated and the Amur government is willing to transfer to the colonists the entire inventory, including the live-stock and American machinery.

If the offer is accepted, the pioneers will be settled in the better parts of Bureya where they will encounter less difficulties.

At a meeting of 300 settlers, it was decided to send 34 investigators, including Merezhin and Rashkes, to the plantations.

American Jews can better help their relatives in the small towns of Soviet Russia by sending implements instead of money, states “Der Stern,” Charkoff daily. Declaring that the small towns are receiving much relief from American relatives, the paper states that the money is spent for food and clothing, while with implements they would be able to organize workmen’s cooperatives and become artisans.

The Communist newspaper complains that the Jewish settlements are not adopting the collectivist form of organization, which the government seeks to establish. The paper asks the Comzet and the Ozet why they do not undertake measures to put the collective program into effect.

Two hundred and ten Jewish workers in the Cherkass district have been given work in the sugar factories.