Ten workers in the building trust, Mosstroi, were roped and locked up by the militia and firemen when they started a fight with knives against the Jewish administrators. With the slogan “Kill the Jew,” the drunken workers surrounded the Jewish bookkeeper, Jacob Kaplan, attacking him until he was subdued.
A number of others invaded the office of the aged manager, T. Solomkia, addressing him: “Zhidovskaya Morda.”
The building workers in Moscow are considered the wildest anti-Semitic elements, most of them coming from neighboring villages and having little education.
Jewish students at the Moscow Technical School, Techmass, were beaten by their fellow students, reports the “Comsomodskaya Pravda,” Communist youth organ, today. The paper cites examples of how the anti-Semitic teachers united with the anti-Semitic students in constantly persecuting the Jewish students.
While the school administration reports to the higher authorities that all is well at the technical school, anti-Semitic inscriptions about the “Zhids” abound on the walls of the school. The paper demands stricter control.
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