Ukraine Has Jewish Population of 1,500,000

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

There are a million and a half Jews at present in the Ukraine, according to a report which has been submitted to the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.

The report says that there is a total population of 30 million people at present in the Ukraine. Eighty percent are Ukrainians and over 5 percent are Jews; 52 percent of the population are literates. The Germans occupy first place with 80 percent literates and the Jews come second with 79 percent literates.

Eleven hundred unemployed Jews in the Ukraine are to be put to work in various industrial undertakings, according to a decision adopted by the Central Committee for National Minorities at the Commissariat of Labor. Of these one hundred will be put to work in the coal mines in the Donetz Basin and the other thousand will be given employment in the various branches of big industry.

The hundred Jews who are to go into the coal mines will at first be placed on easy work, such as bringing down things to the coal mines and fetching up the coal that has been dug. Gradually they will be given opportunities of digging the coal. For the first two months they will be paid a monthly wage of 24 roubles. After that they will each be paid according to the amount of work they do. The hundred Jews to be put into the coal mining industry will be taken from the towns of Shepetovka, Tultchin, Kamenetz and Mohilev.

COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN TO HAVE OWN BUILDING

A building to serve as national headquarters for the National Council of Jewish Women will be acquired, according to a decision of the Board of Managers at the annual meeting held at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. This building will house the national offices of this organization in New York City, including the office of the Executive Secretary, the Department of Immigrant Aid and Immigrant Education, and the Department of Farm and Rural Work. The site has not yet been chosen.

The Board also authorized the immediate extension of its work for Jewish women on the farms to the states of the Middle West, particularly in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. The international work in behalf of immigrants will be extended to the border cities of Juarez, Mexico and to Tia Juana.

The newly launched Department of Vocational Guidance and Employment will begin a study of employment conditions and problems as they affect Jewish women and girls. It was reported that several thousand Jewish women and girls are out of employment in New York City.

A special session was devoted to the consideration of the organization’s budget and finances, during which reports were presented by Mrs. David M. Green wald of Milwaukee, Treasurer; Mrs. Nathan Eisenmann of New Orleans, Chairman of the Department of Finance and Budget; and Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Executive Secretary.