The Control Committee of the Communist Party in Minsk, the capital of white Russia, has after considering the case of Jew-baiting among the workers in the Communar works in Bobruisk (reported in the J.T.A. Bulletin of Dec. 19th.), and the memorandum submitted to it by one of the Communist workers there named Pitkevitch, alleging that Jews are always getting cushy jobs and that Russians who are better workers are passed over in their favour, has ordered that Pitkevitch should be expelled from the Party because he is a Chauvinist and an antisemite. The Communist wood-workers’ union in the works has been dissolved for permitting antisemitic activity in the works, and its secretary, Kiriuk, has been reprimanded. Shtshekolov, a member of the Bureau and also of the City Party Control Committee, who supported Pitkevitch, has been excluded from the Control Committee and sharply reprimanded. The entire Party Committee in the works has been reprimanded, and its secretary, Hoberman, has been dismissed.
In order to create unity among proletarians of different nations, the Minsk Party Committee has also decided to increase the number of non-Jewish workers in those branches of economic life where Jews are chiefly represented, like tailoring, shoemaking, and the various branches of trading, and to send Jewish workers into those branches where Jews are loss represented, like the railways, postal service, etc., believing that such mingling of Jewish and non-Jewish workers will help to put down chauvinism and create proletarian international solidarity.
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