A new five-year agreement has just been concluded between Agro-Joint and Yevrobmol, the Jewish factory school for qualified workers in Odessa, whereby 300 young Jews from various small villages will receive special training to qualify them as metal workers.
Yevrobmol was founded in 1919 as a club for homeless Jewish children victims of the pogroms in Ukraine. In 1920 the club was converted into a trade school for tailoring and shoemaking. The school is now considered one of the best in the country. It has been considerably expanded and its metal and woodworking production alone amounts to more than a million rubles per year.
In 1932 Agro-Joint helped the school to establish special courses for Jewish young men from the small villages who, because of deficient education, could not enroll in a normal trade school. In the past two and a half years Agro-Joint spent 300,000 rubles for the support of the courses and the students. The training of a qualified worker until now has cost about 1,200 rubles. The cost will now be somewhat lower.
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