Stricter supervision over the selection of emigrants to Biro-Bidjan is demanded in a circular by the Comzet, the government commission to settle Jews on land, addressed to all local Soviets.
The circular points out that in a number of places the selection of settlers for Biro-Bidjan is still incompletely done. The local representatives seem too much concerned with the number of settlers sent out, and do not pay sufficient attention to their qualifications.
The circular instructs the local authorities not to send to Biro-Bidjan Jewish settlers who have left their colonies in Crimea or the Ukraine. A number of such cases have been registered recently, since many Jewish colonists from other parts of Soviet Russia are anxious to be settled in Biro-Bidjan because it is an autonomous Jewish district.
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