Judge Isadore M. Golden was re-elected president of the Zionist District of San Francisco at the annual meeting. Leo J. Rabinowitz and Dr. Henry Harris were re-elected honorary presidents.
recruited among the impoverished Jewish masses, and among the less skilled artisans who do not belong to cooperatives. No workers are to be sent there.
Artisans belonging to co-operatives and collective farmers may be sent there, if their co-operatives and collective farms consent.
The unsatisfactory selection of transmigrants last year, the statement points out, resulted in a tremendous re-emigration movement. A large proportion of the transmigrants were sent back even before they arrived in the settlement areas, as soon as they came to Moscow.
The Comzet and the Ozet demand therefore that only sound people, able and willing to work and to face the difficulties that they will encounter at first should be sent out.
There is a shortage of housing in Bureya, and difficulties in providing food for the first two quarters of this year, the statement says, and the Comzet therefore recommends that till May only small families should be sent out, consisting of people who have no young children as encumbrances.
Every transmigrant family must pass a medical examination, to establish that they are able to work, and are not subject to infectious diseases.
People suffering from infectious diseases, who are physically weak, mentally deficient, or who used to be big traders, manufacturers, speculators, or clergy of any kind, must under no conditions be sent out to Bureya. The same applies to demoralized elements, such as professional mendicants, thieves, hooligans, etc.
Every family must have at least one member able to work, and in the case of large families two or three.
The recruits, before they are sent out, must be told of all the difficulties that they will encounter in Bureya in the early period. No promises are to be made to them which cannot be fulfilled. They must not be promised any big successes. No great hopes are to be held out to them.
The transmigrants to Bureya are to be warned in addition that if there is no work for them in Bureya in their own trades, they may be sent to different work, unless they have a special contract with an authorized economic organization.
Judge Isadore M. Golden was re-elected president of the Zionist District of San Francisco at the annual meeting. Leo J. Rabinowitz and Dr. Henry Harris were re-elected honorary presidents.Other officers re-elected were: Mrs. I. D. Riffin, recording secretary; Miss I. Meyerson, corresponding secretary, and Fred Addelstone, treasurer.
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