The new Soviet decree re-establishing free trading in agricultural products, is expected to result in an improvement of the conditions in the Jewish colonies, and in the supply of food to the Jewish towns.
The entire Yiddish press in the Soviet Union has started a campaign calling on the Jewish colonists and the Jewish agricultural collectives to take full advantage of the new opportunities provided by the free trading decree and send their products direct to the consumers in the towns.
The Moscow Yiddish daily “Emess” reveals in this connection that the State Bank has decided to allocate during the next three months a sum of ten million roubles among agriculturists and collectives in short term credits, to enable them to engage in direct trading to the towns. The “Emess”
urges the Jewish colonists to utilise these short-term credits as far as possible, and to provide themselves with booths and portable tents for use in the market-places. In a similar way the Charkoff Yiddish daily “Stern” urges the Communist leaders in the Jewish colonies to use the new facilities for free trading among the Jewish colonists.
The Yiddish papers already report from various towns which contain large Jewish populations, like Cherson, Kiev, Jitomir, and Berditchev, that the prices of foodstuffs, especially butter, meat, milk, and vegetables have fallen considerably since the issue of the new decree.
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