A. Merezhin, one of the outstanding Jewish Communist leaders, today gives a piece of his mind to those Jewish Communist leaders in the Kalinindorf region who flatly refuse to obey the Communist Party’s order to return collectivized cattle to their owners. The refusal is based on the excuse that collectivization in the Kalinindorf region, which was zealously forced by the regional leaders of this autonomous Jewish region, will collapse if the cattle are returned.
To impress the Moscow leaders the Jewish Communist leaders in Kalinindorf called a meeting of the colonists where a resolution was adopted that said “the meeting rejects the proposal to return to the collectivized cattle.” Merezhin today establishes that this resolution was adopted under a threat that those who asked for their cattle would be proclaimed kulaks. Merezhin is greatly indignant at this compulsion and demands the immediate return of the cattle to their owners.
He relates that the wives of the colonists throughout the Kalinindorf region are busy shouting “give back our cows.” It is learned that the cows will be returned even against the will of the Kalinindorf Jewish Communists.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
