The local governor has cancelled the decision of the municipality to name a street in memory of the Bundist leader, Israel Lichtenstein. The Bund is the organization of Jewish Socialists which played a very prominent part in the early Socialist agitation against he Czarist government. It is very strong among the Polish Jewish workers.
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