Jewish Declassed Ejected from Homes in Charkoff

(J. T. A. Mail Service)

A large number of Jews in Charkoff, the capital of the Ukraine, are being ejected from their homes, on the ground that they are not “working class elements,” and workers are being put into their homes in their peaces. The nationalization of the so-called “Nepmen” homes has been carried through because of the housing shortage in Charkoff. The Charkoff City Soviet decided to ease this shortage by ejecting all “non-working class elements.” A similar decision has been taken today by the City Soviet of Kieff, which has decided to eject all non-working class elements from their homes and give them to workers.

The Charkoff Yiddish Communist daily, “Stern” publishes an article in which it says that the Jewish population in the towns is misinterpreting the intentions of the Soviet Government and the Communist Party, in regard to their measures directed to improve the towns. “The Jewish population,” it says, “sees these measures as a move by the authorities directed specially toward persecuting the Jews. The orders issued with regard to self-taxation, grain-supply, have been interpreted as directed not only against a certain section of the Jewish population but against all Jews as such. Such an attitude,” the paper complains, “only promotes the nationalist chauvinistic feelings which very largely exist in the towns. Such feelings are not confined to the middle class Jewish population. The artisans and even the Jewish Young Communists are also infected by it. The Jewish Young Communists interprete everything as anti-Semitism. They are always taking up the attitude that the Soviet regime is entirely anti-Semitic.