Launching Attack on Zionists As Tools of British Imperialism Against Arab Revolutionaries Jewish Com

Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists are being used only as tools by Britain against the Arab revolutionary movement, Mr. Mereszin, one of the Jewish Communist leaders, argued in the course of a speech which he delivered to-day at the meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, accusing the foreign Jewish bourgeoisie of having joined with other Imperialists in preparing for war against the Soviet Union.

The economic position of the Jews in the Soviet Union has been completely revolutionised in the past two years, Mr. Mereszin went on. Formerly the needle trades and the leather trades were the two occupations in which the Jews were engaged, but now the number of Jews working in the Soviet metal industries exceeds the number of Jews in all other trades.

Of the total Jewish proletariat, he said, 43 percent. is connected with the large industries, while the Jewish artisans number now only 25 percent. In one single metal factory at Onepro-Petrovsk there are 5,000 Jewish workers. A large number of Jewish workers are also employed in the metallurgic industries in the Urals, and in the mines of the Don Basin. Jewish girls are entering the textile works in the Ivanov region in immense numbers.

TOLERANCE OF SOVIET REGIME TO NATIONAL MINORITIES CONTRASTED BY MR. DIMANTSTEIN WITH ANTISEMITISM IN POLAND AND ROUMANIA: SAYS REPLACEMENT OF LATIN SCRIPT FOR ARABIC AND HEBREW CHARACTERS IS SIGN OF PROGRESS OF EASTERN PEOPLES LIVING UNDER SOVIET FLAG

The tolerance of the Soviet regime towards the national minorities was contrasted by Mr. Dimantstein, who since the dissolution of the Jewish Communist Sections is in charge of Jewish affairs, with the wave of antisemitism, which, he said, is sweeping Fascist Poland and nobility-ridden Roumania. Persecution and discrimination in these countries against the Jews, he said, takes the inhuman form of boycotts, which are driving the Jewish population to starvation and despair.

All Eastern peoples living under the Soviet flag have discarded the Arabic characters in which their literature was formerly printed, Mr. Dimantstein went on, and have adopted the Latin script, which automatically means the development and progress of the culture of these peoples. The educational organs of the Soviet Government, Mr. Dimantstein said, are consequently faced with the colossal task of writing new books and re-editing others in Latinised script for the use of these nationalities.