The Jewish section of the Communist party in White Russia has ordered a survey into the status of the Jewish land settlers in the Minsk district. The survey is being undertaken in connection with the tendency to transform the Jewish farms, now privately operated, into collectives. The survey will concern itself with ascertaining how many members of the old Jewish farms in the district received their land in accordance with class principles and whether the existing Jewish collectives follow out in practice the collective principle.
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