American Jews will be enabled to help their relatives in Soviet Russia join industrial factories, according to the new Ort plan just adopted. It is learned that the Ort intends to establish special Jewish cooperative factories on a shareholding basis. Each relative abroad can buy through the Ort a share, thus enabling his relative in Soviet Russia to become a worker and at the same time a partner in the factory whose share has been acquired. Should the relative in Soviet Russia decide later on to quit the factory, he will get the full sum for his share paid out in Soviet currency.
For shares paid in the United States, the Ort will order machinery and materials necessary for the planned factories, which will work in Russia under Soviet cooperative laws and will be provided with raw material by the Soviet cooperative and government organs. The Ort will supply the factories with technical aid as well as with instructors to teach the work to those
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