Ozet Conference Expresses Satisfaction with Kalinin’s Address

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Satisfaction with the address of Michael Kalinin, president of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, before the Jewish land settlement conference, is expressed in a resolution adopted at the closing session of the Ozet conference held here. Two hundred delegates from Russia and fifteen from foreign countries participated in the conference.

The resolution expressing satisfaction with Kalinin’s address declares that “it squarely placed the national question and offered a radical solution to the Jewish working class problem.”

Forty-nine members were elected to the new administration of the Ozet, under the chairmanship of N. Dimenstein, the head of the Department of National Minorities. The larger part of the members of the administration are Communists. Among the non-partisans elected are Samuel Weizmann, Dr. Wermel and Professor Bruk.

A council consisting of eighty-six members was also elected. Among the Communists elected to the council are J. Larin, A.N. Merejin, Mr. Litvakov, editor of “Emes” Mr. Tchemerinsky and Esther Frumkin. Among the nonpartisans elected to the council were Dr. A. Bragin, Professor Kogan and Mr. Bramson, the agronomists Lubarsky, of the Agrojoint, and Churgin of the Ica, Professor David Schor, Mr. Altman and Mr. Gronowsky, director of the Yiddish Chamber Theatre.