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The trial of two Communist workers in the Soviet brick factory at Bobruisk, the town where the Barshay affair occurred, begun in the Bobruisk court several days ago, is attracting wide attention. The two workers, Zivilko and Petrovitch, are charged with having blinded Hersh Neiman, a Jewish worker in the factory, by throwing hot metal into his face.
The spectators in the courtroom were deeply moved, many to the point of tears, when the blind Neiman was led to the witness stand and related the tragic story of how he lost his sight.
The two accused deny that they blinded him on purpose.
Neiman was injured when the two brick workers brought their persecutions of the Jewish worker to a peak by throwing hot metal into his face. Both the perpetrators were excluded from the factory. However, the local Communist party collective tried to avert an anti-Semitic issue in the town where the anti-Semitic Barshay affair attracted such wide attention. The collective said that the affliction to the Jewish worker was an accident.
After a special investigation, the District Communist Party ordered the dissolution of the factory collective, and Zivilko and Petrovitch were arrested.
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