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Jews without voting rights will be given the right to vote after they have worked in the land collectives for a certain period of time it was assured today by land commissary M. Ratshitsky, addressing the White Russian Ozet convention at Minsk. Ratshitsky said that “due to the incorrect action of the White Russian Ozet, many undesirables were settled in the Jewish collectives. However, now when a cleaning is going on in the collectives, we must be very careful with expulsion.”
Continuing, the land commissar said:
“There are such ultra-Left revolutionaries who expel during a cleaning all those who have no election rights. This is absolutely incorrect. We must differentiate between Nepmen and those who are compelled to do small trading but who never exploited hired labor. The last have the full right to remain in the collectives even though they have no election rights. They will receive these rights later.”
Ratshitsky told the convention that there are now 9,101 Jewish families in the land collectives of White Russia and he added that the situation of the Jews in the small towns is becoming more complicated now that the total collectivization is conducted. He also said the government will assist those affected by settling part of them in neighboring collectives and helping the rest to migrate to an industrial region like the Ural or Leningrad or to go to Crimea or Bira Bidjan.
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