Only 25 copies of the “Emes,” Communist Yiddish daily, are read in the district of Velikoluki, where there are more than 15,000 Jewish workers, states the paper “Nash Put.” The paper also reports that in Jewish workers clubs newspapers are available in many languages, except Yiddish. The Jewish workers are gradually losing interest in the Yiddish language, the paper declares.
William Shapiro, active Socialist leader and member of the Arbeiterung No. 3, died suddenly on Friday evening in New York, in the midst of a discussion on the labor question. He was sixty years old. Grief was manifested in labor circles over his sudden death.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
