(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The organization Ort, functioning outside of Russia to raise the means for spreading trade and agriculture among Jews, will have the right to work in Russia officially, according to the terms of an agreement between the Comzet, the governmental department for settling Jews on the land, and the Ort. The agreement, which was negotiated for some time, was approved yesterday by the Council of People’s Commissars.
According to the terms of this agreement, the Ort will have the right to engage in Jewish colonization activities in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Ort undertook the obligation of spending the sum of 1,500,000 roubles annually and concentrating the work in the district of Odessa and in White Russia.
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