Soviet Ort Liquidated on Orders from Comzet

The Soviet Ort, which has no connection with the All-World Ort, the society for the promotion of technical trades and agriculture among the Jews of Eastern Europe, has been liquidated, according to a report from Moscow to the headquarters of the All-World Ort in Berlin. The dissolution of the Soviet Ort is the result of a long and bitter campaign of the Jewish Communist leaders who have been advocating the combination of the Soviet Ort’s activities with those of the Ozet, Russian society for settling the Jews on the land.

They have been advocating this fusion because the Ozet’s scope of work has been almost nothing since its withdrawal from general Jewish work and its limitation of its activities almost exclusively to the work in Bira Bidjan, Far Eastern Republic. Some months ago the Comzet, Soviet department for settling the Jews in the land, rejected a plea for the liquidation of the Soviet Ort and the transfer of its functions to the Ozet. Now the Comzet has reversed itself and finds that the existence of the Soviet Ort is unnecessary.

While the Soviet Ort will no longer function, the All-World Ort, which in its operations in Russia helps the industrialization of the declassed Jews and aids in bringing them machinery and tools paid for by relatives abroad, intends to widen its activites by taking part of the work of the Soviet Ort.