There are now 137,000 Jewish workers employed in Soviet industries in the Ukraine, the results of a survey made public today disclose.
The survey discloses that the Jewish workers in the Ukraine constitute now about ten per cent of the total number of workers there. The census of 1926 showed only about 57,000 Jewish laborers in the Ukraine.
In White Russia Jewish workers were found to total 32,000 of the entire 131,000. In 1926 their number was 13,400.
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S. {SPAN}Di###tstein{/SPAN}, the chairman of the national minorities department in the Central Soviet Government, addressing a meeting in Minsk, White Russia, on the question of the immigration of foreign Jews to Biro-Bidjan, said that the decision of the Soviet government to admit foreign Jews is not due to the lack of immigrants in Soviet Russia.
“On the contrary,” Mr. Diamantstein said, “the movement to Biro-Bidjan has never been so great as now. It was necessary previously
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