The question whether political education among Jewish workers in the leather factories should be carried on in Yiddish or in Russia gave rise to a heated debate to-day at a Conference being held here of 2,000 Jewish leather workers. The factory authorities insist that it should be conducted in Russian, arguing that all Jews speak Russian.
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