Nearly 700,000 more Jews in Russia will find employment on the land, in factories, in the government service or as subsidized students, according to a new five year plan for the Jews announced here today by the Comzet, government department for settling the Jews on the land and establishing them in industry.
According to the plan 135,000 Jewish youths will join Soviet industrial enterprises in the next three years in addition to the 30,000 Jewish students now supported by the government. The number of subsidized students will be increased to 65,000. The plan also provides for 55,000 unemployed Jews and for 20,000 of the estimated 27,000 small Jewish traders.
Fifty thousand Jewish artisans will be converted into factory workers by 1933 while 10,000 Jewish professional men will be required to take to productive physical labor. The total number of Jews to be converted into industrial laborers in the coming three years is 450,000, including 80,000 in heavy industry, 25,000 in building work, 6,000 railway workers and 11,000 in auto transport.
Aside from those to be taken into industrial work the plan provides for the appointment of 145,000 Jews in the government employ and 65,000 on the land. The number of Jewish artisans will be decreased to 66,000 because many of them are becoming industrial laborers.
The plan forecasts that the Jewish population of Russia will be 2,853,000 by the end of 1933.
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