A protest against the land commissariat’s decision to grant only a million and a half roubles instead of three million roubles as agricultural bank credits for the Jewish colonies, was submitted today by the Comzet, government department for settling the Jews on the land, to the Soviet cabinet. The matter of the three million rouble credit has been disputed between the Comzet and the Agricultural Bank for some time.
As a result of the unwillingness of the Agricultural Bank to grant the 3,000,000 rouble credit, the Jewish fields in Ukraine are in danger of being behind in the Spring sowing. A. Merezhin, a leader of the Jewish Communists, has declared publicly that if the three million roubles are not granted, the Comzet will be compelled to refuse credits to the Jewish colonists in Ukrainia and limit itself to aiding the Crimean colonists only.
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