A clash between the Jewish peasants termed Kulaks and the Communist Jewish colonists in the Sholom Aleichem colony is reported here. The clash occurred at a meeting when the Communists insisted that the Collective Einheit should deliver its bread reserves to the Government. The opposition was led by Moses Kravetz, former member of the Communist party and now President of the Collective. In the attack on the colonists for its delivery the colonist Hersh Baltakse was injured.
Since the Kulaks are in the majority in the colony, a resolution was adopted against the delivery of the bread to the Government.
Reports of similar resolutions adopted in the colonies, Freiheit, and Veg Tzum Sozialism, in the Kalinindorf region, were received.
The decline of Jewish collectivization in Dobroye and Novopoltavke, both old colonies in the Ukraine is reported. In the spring 89% of the Jewish colonists entered collectives, only 23%, however, remaining.
In White Russia, however, collectivization has increased, with 1,547 collectives on record. These, however, have delivered to the government only five per cent of the amount of bread they are scheduled to deliver.
Conditions in the Ukraine are better inasmuch as the Ukrainian government today agreed to give 30,000 pud seeds to the Agro-Joint; 20,000 pud to the Jewish Colonization; 5,000 to the Ort.
Reports from Crimea state that the Jewish colonists are now refusing to contract their winter crop to the Government, inasmuch as their satisfactory summer harvest enables them to exist until next year without credits.
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