Huge Industrial Program by Soviet for Jews May Lead to Abolition of Declassed

A program that may eventually lead to the complete abolishment of all the declassed within Russia in the next few years is being prepared by the Soviet government following the action by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union on the report presented to it on the Jewish situation.

The complete realization of this gigantic program which makes no discrimination against the Jewish lishentzy (people without right), depends on aid from the Agro-Joint of machinery and technical assistance. The plan includes the building of a number of new factories in Crimea where the declassed Jews from the Ukrainian and White Russian small towns can be placed, the qualifying of thousands of primitively trained Jewish artisans for qualified workers fit for developed industry and the removal of as many of the Jewish youth as possible from the small towns and placing them in technical institutions or factories so that they can obtain immediate practical training and jobs.

The major parts of this program can be achieved if American Jewry takes a hand in equipping the planned Jewish factories with American machinery, in building dormitories for the Jews who come to the factories from the small towns for training and in helping to transport the Jews from the small towns to the places where the factories and technical schools are to be located.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that Jewish leaders here are extremely interested in these new industrial opportunities which for Soviet Jewry today means the same as the Jewish colonization project meant during the first years of the land movement. Hope is expressed here that American Jewry will properly estimate the tremendous value of the projected industrial constructive relief and will utilize it as a rare opportunity for Soviet Jewry.