Because of the serious lack of food among the Jewish colonists in Kalinindorf, the Comzet, government department for settling the Jews on the land, today assigned a loan of 5,000 roubles to provide the neediest with food and forage for their livestock until the harvest. It was also learned today that Soviet factories will henceforth be opened to the children of those Jews who are without rights.
Commenting on the decree which contains the clause enabling the grown children of Jews without rights to be registered at the government employment bureaus for work, Jewish leaders all agree that this clause opens wide the Soviet factories to such youth They point out that the difficulties which had been created in the past when sending Jewish youth who were without rights into the factories are now overcome and the paradox of there being a demand for Jewish youth in the factory as well as a supply that could not be furnished is now eliminated.
The decree also opens the way for the Jews without rights to be settled on the land. It is no secret that the Comzet is unable to send enough Jews from the small towns to the land this Spring because nearly all of those who remained in the small towns are without rights and according to the law cannot be granted land. As a result of the decree it is believed that the discrimination against rightless Jews will be abandoned when selecting those to be settled on the land.
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