The Commissariat of the Interior yesterday issued an order to all local Soviets in the Ukraine to assign free government land to the declassed Jews in order to enable them to become dairymen or vegetable farmers.
The Comzet, governmental department for settling Jews on the land has for a long time requested such an action on the part of the Ukainian Government. It maintains now that the order has come too late to be able to develop the project this year. It urges the Jews, however, to immediately present claims for free land in order to assure themselves of a field for future activity.
An important decision, which it is believed will have an important bearing on the improvement of conditions in the small towns has just been adopted by the Ukrainian Inspection Commissariat, the highest body, controlling the activities of Government Institutions. The Commissariat has ordered an investigation to discover whether local Soviets fully execute Government orders aiming to improving conditions of the Jews in the towns.
The investigation, which will begin next week, is the result of the suspicion that, due to anti Semitic prejudice, a number of Soviet officials have declined to undertake reconstruction of the towns. The investigators, it is stated, will consult with Jewish organizations functioning in the towns which are the subject of the inquiry.
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