More than ninety Jewish workers left Paris yesterday to take up settlement in Bira Bidjan which, under Soviet plans, is to become an autonomous Jewish region by the end of 1933.
The group is comprised for the most part of unmarried men and women with a sprinkling of families.
A contract for a period of two years has been signed by all and provides that the migrants are automatically to become citizens of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
The majority are specialist workers, such as builders and mechanics, who are suffering from unemployment. A number are motivated by purely idealistic considerations and have given up employment in France. This group has undertaken to pay its own travelling expenses in the amount of 600 francs.
Should they fail to find employment, however, they will be reimbursed partially.
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