The continued fall in the number of readers of the Yiddish Communist press in Russia, was the subject of a consultation in Charkoff held for the purpose of finding ways and means of checking the decline.
The Charkoff Yiddish daily, “Stern,” it was stated at the Conference, had in April, 1932, a total of 28,000 readers. By December this number had fallen to 17,000, and the same thing has been experienced by all other Yiddish papers.
The decline is attributed to faulty distribution, especially through the neglect of the Post Office. It is pointed out that newspapers are delivered by the Post Office only once or twice a wek, instead of daily.
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