The intensive penetration of Jews into Soviet big industry which was promised for the new year was given an impetus to-day with the announcement that the Comzet (Government Commission for Jewish Settlement) has concluded an agreement with the Supreme Economic Council, and with the Ministry of Labour for the immediate placing of 5,000 young Jews in the technical schools and factory schools at the metallurgical steel mining centres of Magnitogorsk, in the Urals, in the Don Basin and in Kertsch, in the Crimea, where they will under-go special training to fit them as qualified workers and experts in these trades.
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