Twelve hundred young men from White Russia will be sent to Stalingrad to a tractor factory for work and half of them will be Jews, is the order of the labor commissariat. A high official of the labor commissariat today explained that of the 750,000 new workers which the government is planning to employ during the fiscal year in its great industries great consideration will be given to the Jewish youth from the small towns.
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