A Conference called for the purpose of considering ways and means of filling the quota of Jewish workers required to work properly the land in the Jewish regions in the Ukraine, Kalinindorf. Stalindorf and New Zlatopol, has been held at Charkoff, the capital of the Ukraine, at which it was brought out that unless several thousand new Jewish families of settlers are placed in the regions, it will be difficult to retain them as Jewish regions.
3,00 new immigrant families or 7,000 new working hands are required that the Jewish region of Kalinindorf should be able to control the land in its possession and carry out the economic plans marked out for the Region. 9,000 families are required for the same purpose in Stalinindorf, and about 600 in New Zlatopol.
The Ukrainian Comzet and Ozet are assuming responsibility for settling 3,000 families there during 1932.
The Ukrainian Comzet, the Ozet, the Central Committee for National Minorities, the Jewish and the Ukrainian press, the Jewish regions and other interested organisations are represented at the Conference, which will have to draw up the programme for the year and fix the number of new Jewish settlers to be brought into the Jewish regions during January.
The Conference has repudiated the views both of the Right Wing, which claims that the entire populations of the Jewish small towns are candidates for settlement, and of the Left Wing, which claims that the problem of the Jewish small towns is no completely solved, and that there are no Jews left there who can migrate to the colonies. Most of the participants took the view that although the economic position in the Jewish small towns is vastly better than it was a few years back, and the question of earning a livelihood is in essence solved, there are still sufficient candidates left for settlement in the Jewish colonisation areas. The new migrants must not be drawn now from the declassed poor, it was urged, but also from the semi-trained artisans who do not work in co-operatives and are dependent on borrowed raw material, as well as those land-workers who are unable to arrange their affairs properly in the collective farms in the vicinity of their towns, and those Jews who are engaged in enterprises conducted by the relief organisations which are of a temporary character.
It was also urged that the small town Soviets should be made responsible for the success of the Jewish migration campaign, because it is not merely a Jewish concern, as the local authorities seem to think, but a question of importance to the State.
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