The Jewish Colonisation Society (Ozet) in the Soviet Union, which in the last few years has been restricting its activities to Bureya, is now on the verge of liquidation, according to information received here from Moscow.
The Moscow Yiddish Communist daily “Emess” publishes an editorial which amounts to a warning that the position of the Ozet is becoming dangerous. A large number of Ozet branches in Central Russia and in White Russia are practically dead, it says, notwithstanding the efforts made to keep the Ozet alive by drawing up plans for increasing its membership, and creating for it an income of a million roubles in the form of membership dues. These plans have not materialised, it says, although four months have elapsed since they were drawn up. The entire future of the Ozet depends upon the success of theses plans, the “Emess” declares, and urgent measures must be taken to revive the work of the Ozet. The Ozet, it says, must be reorganised, and a new working apparatus must be created for it.
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