An accident to a Jewish textile worker, Aron Malinsky, member of the Communist Party, in Moscow’s greatest textile plant which was formerly known as Zindel’s, has caused a stir in Communist and labor union circles here.
Malinsky lost his arm to the elbow, it is charged as the result of deliberate misdirection of the machine at which he was working. Three of his assistants, Nikolaeff, Elenin and Klopotovsky, all Communists, are charged with deliberate misdirection of the machine in order to remove Malinsky from the plant. Anti-Semitic bias is said to be the cause. Envy of Malinsky’s efficiency and productivity was also a motive. The Jewish worker who held the record for output in the factory was recently promoted to mastership by the management. Since then he was the object of annoyance and persecutions at the hands of his fellow workers, who charged him with falsifying the output record to show that he produces daily hundreds of meters of goods more than the other workers. The management exonerated him of this charge and expressed recognition of his labors. A few days later the accident occurred.
The case, it is stated, will be given wide publicity as Malinsky was regarded as the “best textile worker, good comrade and brilliant party member.” He is now at a Moscow hospital.
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