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Crimea Jewish Farmers Ask Government to Dissolve Chaluzim Colony

January 29, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A request to the Soviet Government to disband the colony. Tel Chai. established and worked by Chaluzim. Zionist youth preparing to take up farming in Palestine was directed by Jewish farmers of Crimea.

Three members of the administrative council of the colony were recently sentenced by the supreme court for alleged anti-revolutionary activities. The request to disband the colony was voted upon at a general meeting of the farmers after they had listened to a report of a member of the Yevsektzia, Lipsky, concerning the contra-revolutionary activities of the pioneer organization, Hehaloz. The Tei chai colony is to be transformed into a purely communist enterprise.

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