Three thousand employes of cooperatives in Ukrainia, mostly Jews, have been discharged because they avoided studying the Ukrainian language. No compensation was given them. The Ukrainian government had ordered Ukrainization to be conducted and it was found that the cooperatives had generally failed in this. The central management of the cooperatives have therefore ordered discharged, without warning or compensation, all those who declined to study Ukrainian without a satisfactory reason.
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