The Jews in Borisov and in other towns of White Russia are putting up a determined opposition to the efforts made by the Jewish colonisation authorities to develop a pig-breeding industry as part of the Jewish colonisation movement. When the Technical High School for grain culture in Borisov was changed into a Technical High School for animal breeding, specialising in pig-raising, scores of Jewish students announced their intention to leave their studies, declaring: We refuse to have anything to do with pigs.
In other places, directors of Jewish collectives have tendered their resignations when they were called upon to change their collectives from grain-raising collectives to pig-breeding collectives. Many workmen, too, have threatened to leave their employment for the same reason. In the Koidanov region, where a special pig-raising Jewish collective has been established, the pig industry is proving unproductive, about 97 per cent of the pigs raised dying while still sucklings.
The Jewish Communist paper “Oktiabr”, of Minsk, the capital of White Russia, in reviewing the pig-raising industry in White Russia, mentions, however, certain collectives in strictly Jewish territory, where it claims the pig-breeding industry is being conducted on scientific and successful lines. In Slutsk, for instance, it says, there are two excellent pig-raising collectives, and Jewish workers there are taking a keen interest in pig-raising.
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