The Jewish section of the Communist Party is exerting every effort, it is reported here in the Communist press, to introduce the Communist doctrine of class struggle among the settlers in the Russian Jewish colonies.
The propaganda is conducted along the accepted lines of Bolshevik economics, dividing the settlers into three distinct categories, the Bedniaks (the poor), the Sredniaks (middle-class) and the Kulaks (rich peasants). This division has become possible in view of the fact that after three or four years of hard work some of the settlers have accumulated some slight property. This is sufficient in the eyes of the Communists to classify these settlers as Kulaks.
The Yiddish Communist daily, “Emes,” claims that the Jewish “Kulaks” obstruct the collectivization of the farms, declaring that the “Kulaks” (Continued on Page 4)
Leaders of the commune Zangen will soon be tried on the charge of economic counter-revolution. An investigating commission reported that the Chaluzim, members of this commune, broke the machines and deliberately neglected the commune. The director, Goldberg, was deposed. In his place two Communists, Gramov and Korn, were appointed.
Commenting on this despatch from Moscow, David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, declared to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the main concern of American Jews in the colonization work in Russia is to bring succor to those who are in need. The politics played by the Jewish Communists on by any of the groups in Russia cannot be and is not their concern, he declared.
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