Measures to further the development of collective farms instead of individual settlements have been taken in various parts of the Union by local village Soviets.
The Soviets voted to expropriate land now held by individual peasants, including Jews, and to transfer it to collective farms, in the case of Jewish peasants to Jewish collectives.
These steps were taken on the pretext that the individual settlers are “speculating Kulaks” who do not work the land themselves but hire laborers to cultivate the land. This policy is being carried out on farms situated near the towns. It has not been applied in the colonies where the Agrojoint, the agency of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Ort or the Jewish Colonization Association are operating.
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