Comzet Approves Merger of Soviet Ort and Ozet

The decision to merge the Soviet Ort, which has no connection with the All-World Ort, the society for promotion of technical trades and agriculture among the Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia, with the Ozet, society for settling the Jews on the land, was approved today by the Comzet, government department for settling the Jews on the land. The statistical and economic commission hitherto working for the Soviet Ort today began working for the Central Ort administration.

The Comzet, originally opposed to the amalgamation of these two organizations, recently reversed itself and approved it. Last September it was reported that the Soviet Ort would be dissolved and merged with the Ozet. This was the result of the efforts of the Jewish Communist leaders of the Ozet who resented the fact that the Ozet’s scope of activity has been almost nil since its withdrawal from general Jewish work and the limitation of its activities almost exclusively to the work in Bira Bidjan, Far Eastern Republic.

While the Soviet Ort will no longer function, the All-World Ort, which in its operations in Russia helps the industrialization of the declassed Jews and aids in bringing them machinery and tools paid for by relatives abroad, plans to widen its activities by taking over part of the work of the Ozet.