Some 1,200,000 roubles were today assigned by the Gosplan, the organization that maps out the Soviet’s industrial plans, for the technical equipment needed in connection with the organization of 52,300 Jewish artisans into cooperatives as part of the plan announced in February to improve the situation of the Jews in the small towns. Originally it had been planned to organize 60,000 artisans. The same plans call for 31,000 more to be organized next year.
As worked out by the Gosplan, these artisans will receive vast sums in the form of credits to be allotted, ten million roubles for lumber for wood work, ten million roubles worth of textiles, two hundred tons of flax, one million roubles worth of leather and six thousand tons of metal. These credits will reach a sum in excess of 20,000,000 roubles.
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