All Jewish artisans in White Russia, members of whose families suffered from pogroms or the Civil War, will be reinstated to their rights and reaccepted into the artisans cooperatives from which they were expelled as lishentzy (people without rights) for having at some time or other engaged in small trading enterprises. This was the substance of a decision adopted by the Central Executive Committee of White Russia.
The decision also recommended that industrial employment be given to the artisans so qualified and that they be registered at the government employment bureaus for general work. A great number of Jewish families are affected by this decision because since White Russia is a border state it had many Jewish sufferers from the Civil War and pogroms.
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