(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
A resolution declaring that the Jewish Land Settlement Movement which has so far been conducted as an experiment has now shown itself successful, was adopted by the Praesidium of the All-Soviet Central Executive Committee, after hearing a report on the position of the Jewish land settlement in Russia. The position of the Jewish farms is on an average 30 per cent better than that of the farms of the Russian peasants in the same districts working under the same conditions, the report stated.
The Praesidium therefore decided to take steps with a view to conducting the Jewish Land Settlement movement on more intensive lines than up to the present and has further decided that when the present plan of settling 100,000 Jewish families on the land will have been carried out, fresh opportunities should be provided for the settlement of more Jews on the land.
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