Jews in Russia are beginning to take the question of the growing antisemitism in the factories into their own hands, and instead of submitting to indignities they throw up their jobs and go to look for work elsewhere. If a charge of “industrial desertion” is made against them they welcome it as giving them an opportunity of declaring publicly why they left their work, and formulating a charge against the factory authorities.
In Minsk, the factory administration in the Polimia Revolutsil factory began to show open antisemitic tendencies. Skilled Jewish workmen were taken from their benches and put to work as common labourers. A number of Jewish workmen thereupon left their employment. When investigations were made the full story of the antisemitism in the factory came out.
In another factory in Karelia, a Jewish workman who had been subjected to humiliations while at work asked for and obtained leave of absence to go to a rest resort for a cure. While there he notified the factory that he does not intend to return to work unless and until the antisemitic persecutions cease.
A feature of the growing factory antisemitism is the increasing number of members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League who take part in antisemitic persecutions and outbreaks.
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