On Yom Kippur we shall all, without exception, go to our work, converting the day into a Jewish festival of labour, and we shall give up all our wages for that day to-wards the building of our war-submarine, “The Militant Atheist”, says a resolution adopted by the members of the Jewish artisan co-operative “Freileben”, in the town of Tula.
Several other Jewish co-operatives have adopted similar resolutions to work on Yom Kippur. The Jewish workers at the Kiev locomotive factory, numbering about 700, have also decided that they, and all the members of their family will be at work on Yom Kippur.
It is estimated that over 60,000 Jewish workers and artisans were at work in Moscow on Rosh Hashanah.
An anti-religious meeting has been arranged for Kol Nidre night in the Collonade Hall of the Moscow Union House, which accommodates about 1,500 people.
The Yiddish Communist papers published yesterday and the day before, the two days of Rosh Hashanah, are given up very largely to the anti-religious campaign, both editorials and correspondence from the various localities urging that instead of being as now a seasonal campaign, at the time of the particular religious festivals, the antireligious campaign should be made permanent. The religionists are denounced in the “Emess” as enemies of the Soviet regime. It is no use their saying that they are only concerned with religion, and do not interfere in political affairs and in class warfare, it writes. We know too well that the priest and the rabbi are the agents of bourgeois society.
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