(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Figures on the participation of Jewish workers in Soviet industries were published by the Council of the Ukrainian Trade Unions.
According to these figures there are 127,000 Jewish workers in the Ukraine, constituting 12.8 percent of the registered one million non-Jewish workers. In the needle trades the percentage of Jewish workers is 73. They constitute 49 percent in the leather goods industry and 40 percent in the printing trade.
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