The Daily Worker

Jewish Farm Groups
in Soviet Union Are
Advancing Rapidly

Gather Record Crops;
Build Papers, High-
Schools, Soviets

By
VERN SMITH
Special to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, Sept. 17. (By
cable)— The organization of
Jewish
workers
into large
farm collectives forming
thriving Jewish
communities
is well on the high road to complete
success, the Committee for the Pro-
motion of Agriculture Among Jews
has just reported to Kalinin, Presi-
dent of the USSR.

More than 7,500 Jewish settlers have
become part of the famous Birobid-
jan Jewish settlement in the north-
eastern part of the Soviet Union as
members of collective farms.

Large State grain farm stations
equipped with tractors and other
agricultural machinery have been
successfully organized. As a result,
the planted area has grown from
14,000 to 27,500 hectares (a hectare is
2.47 acres).

A system of co-operative industrial
enterprises to make full use of the
local raw materials, and a school sys-
tem which includes all children of
school age have also been establi-
shed.

A Jewish high school and a school
for Socialist farming are included in
the school system. In addition, a
newspaper published in the Jewish
and Russian language is being issued.

In the rich lands of the Crimea,
over 25,000 Jewish settlers are on the
land organized in collective farms.
Remarkable successes have been
achieved in certain dry districts in
introducing fruit and grape-growing.
Scores of National Soviets have
been formed in the Jewish National
district, including complete school
systems with great number of high
schools and agricultural schools.

So successful has the farm program
been that within the recent months,
the Jewish settlers in the Ukraine
have planted about 100,000 hectares
of grain and fruits.

The standard of living of the Jew-
ish colonies has risen rapidly, and
is improving remarkably as one farm-
ing group after another is collectiv-
ized.