Complains Yiddish Press Has Joined in Conspiracy of Silence to Defeat Anti-religious Campaign

The Yiddish press has united “in a conspiracy of silence” to defeat the anti-religious campaign in connection with the Jewish high Holydays, the “Emess” complains.

Neither the “Shtern,” Yiddish Communist daily of Charkov, nor the “Octiabr” of Minsk, have mentioned the anti-religious campaign which it launched, asserts the “Emess.”

Only two insignificant provincial sheets have followed its lead, the “Emess” says.

The “Emess” thereupon calls upon local Communist Unions to make representations to the Communist organs to combat religious observancses.

The paper cities the growth of religious tendencies among the workers and even in the collectives. The Jews of Zaporoszhie near Dnieprostroy, it asserts, invited a cantor from Moscow to come to the colony to conduct holyday services and are paying him two thousand roubles.