Five workers in a canning plant in Kamienitz Podolsk, Ukraine, were sentenced today to prison terms for anti-Semitic activities and for molesting Jewish workers in the plant.
Three of the five were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and banished to Siberia for three years after their prison term has been served. The other two were sentenced to two years imprisonment each. Four of those sentenced will lose their civil rights. All five were expelled from the labor union immediately after the verdict was pronounced.
At a meeting of factory workers, it was demanded that the management of the plant also be put on trial in order to prevent a recurrence of the trouble. The trial aroused wide interest, and was witnessed by over 1,000 workers.
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