The 1933 transmigration movement to Bureya is now under way, and according to a report from Chabarovsk, the centre from which the Bureya work is being conducted, 1,500 transmigrants are to be absorbed during the first quarter of this year, including 445 workers in various trades, who will be distributed in the collective farms, industrial collectives and other enterprises, according to plans already made.
In spite of repeated admonitions, the Chaborovsk statement complains, there are among the new transmigrants who have arrived during January some who are not fit for work, old people, large families in which there are many young children, and workers in trades which are not required, like tailors, and furriers.
The leaders of the Bureya settlement work insist that the local recruiting commissions must exercise more care because these people break down the entire settlement plan.
The main task of the Jewish migration work in the Soviet Union this year is to enable the Government to organize a Jewish national territorial unit in Bureya by the end of this year, to organize and consolidate the Jewish collective farms in the Crimea, and in the Jewish national regions of the Ukraine, says a statement issued by the Comzet and Ozet headquarters in Moscow.
The recruiting of transmigrants, it says, must be absolutely voluntary. There must be no compulsory measures and no administrative or social pressure in order to prevail on people to emigrate.
In recruiting transmigrants for Bureya, it must be remembered, it says further, that in addition to transmigrants for the Soviet and collective farms, who are to number about 2,400 families, and are to be recruited mainly among the declassed and unskilled workers, Bureya also requires a large number of skilled workers in various trades, and artisans who should number about 3,600 families.
A large proportion of these transmigrants will go out with contracts with economic organizations in Bureya concluded by special representatives of these organizations, who will come into the recruiting places and work in conjunction with the Comzet and Ozet.
The Ministry of Labor has also ordered its local departments to take an active part in the recruiting of transmigrants for the economic, industrial and artisan enterprises in Bureya.
Transmigrants for the Crimea and for the Jewish national regions of the Ukraine, the instructions say, are to be
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