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ROPII‘Lez

A Visit To the Jewish Colonies in Russia

CHALUZIM STORM
ZIONIST CONGRESS

VIENNA.—(J. T. Al-.
.
Cot r. rola.
tion prevailed amongst the di I; ;rates
to the Fourteenth Zionist Congress
when 300 chaluzim, who are in Viol.
na on their way to Palestine, stormed
the Congress Hall demanding that an
opportunity be given them to see It s
Weizmann and Mr. Sokolov.
The
chaluzim forced their way into th e
hall and demonstrated and shouted:
Pogroms that have passed, that , of 90 per cent of the transmigrants. "We are starving! We perish! We
alone would not have bestirred tens j Pogroms that were, these are only finally want to be sent to Palestine!"
of thousands of Jews from their long- one of the reasons for the exodus. The leaders of the demonstrants ex-
established abiding places, would not ; The tax collector, local compulsions, plained that the chaluzim were un-
J have created the urge to forsake their I buy theater tickets, subscribe for ear- able to proceed to Palestine in view
of their inability to secure certificates
, deep-rooted homes and habits and tain journals, paint the house, lay
seek 'the steppes of the Ukraine and down sidewalks, penalty for this, pen- permitting them to enter the country.
' the valleys of the Criema and the alty for that—these are other rea- The congress ushers endeavored to
, hard life. . sons. Secret anti-Semitism against push out the demonstrants which
Destitution, the drying up of the which one is helpless, a third reason. caused extreme excitement and tu-
'sources of livelihood in the towns, But the main reason is the impossi- mult. The police intervened and re-
that's the driving force. That, too, bility to exist under the present eco- stored order. The demonstrants
elected a delegation which was loca l .
is why many who never saw a pogrom manic conditions.
The outlook for the future is not ised an opportunity to see the Zionist
are also going.
Over the long, serpentine., dust- brilliant. Indeed, every Jew realizes leaders. The chaluzim then demon-
burdened steppe-road we descry corn- that as the government monopolies strated in the hall with banners hear-
ing toward us wagons. Wagons piled and the co-operative develop, the ing as an inscription the Ilillel max.
high—mountain high. Bedding on more impossible will become the sit- im: "Ins In achshav ei matai?" (If
not now, when?)
which three generations came into tuition for the private trader.
Three hours before the demon-tra-
the world and passed nut again; era- "And since America is closed, and
dles as old as the oldest child of the you must have a lot of money to set- tion, leaders of the claluzini in Vien-
na
asked the correspondents of the
tle
in
Palestine,
here
we
are!"
family; verdigris-covered samovars
That's the answer Mr. Brown, Dr. Jewish Telegraphic Agency attending
and copper pots and pans, wedding
the
Congress to forward their appeal
got
nine
times
out
of
ten.
I
Rosen
and
presents when granny was a very
Only a few of them say they want to the Zionist delegates and the Jew-
youthful bride; lame tables, limping
ish
press.
Hundreds of chaluzim are
to
change
their
social
condition.
chairs and benches, chopping-bowls,
"I can't tell you how I felt," says waiting in Vienna for years, being
kneading-pans, an old gramophone,
unable
to
proceed further. Suicide
one
young
chap,
brimful
with
enthu-
an older granny and all the rest of
the "wirtshaft." It was Ilirshen- siasm, "when they wrote into nip is the only alternative left to them,
in
view
of
the
fact that they are pre-
'Social status landworker;
berg's famous "Wohin" taken from papers:
the canvas and reproduced against poor man.' In fact, what were we vented from proceeding to Palestine
before: 'Non-productive element.' and cannot return to their native
the Crimean horizon.
And these, like the figure's in Mr- But now, ha, ha, bread producer., countries. nor can they remain in
Vienna.
shenberg's painting, are fugitives, peasants."
Demonstration Misunderstood.
You must realize that in Russia it
too, fugitives • from impossible taxa-
The demonstration of the chaluzim
tion, from helplessness, from destitu. is no small distinction to be listed
before
the Zionist Congress was mis-
tion, from slow, sure extermination. a peasant and poor.
Anteing the handful of "intelligen. construed by the Vienna police and
But there is no pathos, no despair in
some
papers
to have been the work
their eyes, no terror or fear, such as ma' in the colonies you meet some
the
you see in the painted picture. There who see in the colonization not only of Communists. The leaders of
is no "Wohin"? in the glances which an economic necessity, but also a po- Congress have given the police the
a
even
a
facts
in
the
case
and
have
issued
litical,
cultural,
national
and
they cast over the land, Their
statement. telling the Vienna papers
"Wohin" is answered. They know physical advantage.
what
it
was
all
about.
The
statement
Colonization,
they
say,
will
im-
where they are going and why!
They have left the worst behind prove the economic status of the Jew- issued by the Zionist executive de-
them. They are going toward a bet- ish settlers not only, but also that of clared that a delegation of the chalu.
those who remain in the towns; it will zim was received, their complaints
ter life.
The caravan itself—if you look at strengthen Russian Jewry physically; heard and that steps will be taken to
it will give them the possibility of re- facilitate the leaving of several hun-
it closely—has a different air.
Only the old women sit on the sisting assimilations, of developing dred chaluzim for Palestine.
wagons and tiny heads peep out fyom their own culture; will transform a
among the household things....-41ere large number of Jews into producers,
and there, high, like a queen on a who will strengthen the government's
RUSSIA
throne, a young mother suckling her opposition to anti-Semitism and solve
many problems.
newest babe.
MOSCOW.—(J.
T.
A.)—Attempts
But of these problems only a few
We stop the caravan and get to
are thinking now. The great mass to legalize the work of the Oze, the
talking with the party.
society for the protection of the Jew-
It develops that this is a group of are not doing any "high thinking."
ish population, are being made by Dr.
nine families who have organized a With them it is a question of bread,
Gran, member of the Oze Committee,
collective (a commune) and are go- just bread. They will think of other
who just returned here from the
ing out to take possession of the land matters when they will have enough
United States. Dr. Gran in an inter-
bread.
assigned to them hardby Jankoy.
view with the correspondent of the
The group interested us. They
Jewish Telegraphic Agency praised
hailed from Yerzevoi, a town in the
the generous support of the American
Gubernia of Slunimsk, where, before
Jewish press. Dr. Gran proposed to the
the Revolution, Jews had no "right
Soviet authorities that the Oze work
of domicile." The few to wlom per-
The enemies of Judaism? Not anti- be legalized on the sante lines as the
mission to live there was granted Semitism; not Henry Ford; not Ku
Agrojoint to work independently with
had substantial livelihoods. Even Klux Klan; not hatred; not prejudice.
the supervision of the Soviet authori-
those who came there later foond The ignorant and the indifferent Jew.
ties. The Oze, together with the medi-
fairly decent means of existence. No Ile is the real enemy of Judaism. The
cal commission of the Joint Distribu-
pogroms had occurred there, the revo- deadliest enemy of Judaism—the "Ant
tion Committee, now' maintains over art
lution had spared it. Why have they Ilaaretz," the unlettered and untu-
Jewish medical sanitary institutions
abandoned their old homes? Why tored Jew; the Jew and Jewess of
in Soviet Russia. According to Dr.
have they come here to the hard life? wealth and of poverty, the "snob" and
Gran, promises were given by the
"You need pogroms, you need?" the "schnorrer," the Jew who lacks
leaders of the Joint Distribution Com-
A question for a question, as is our understanding of the real values of
mittee that out of the $15,000,000
way of speech, from a middle-aged Judaism.
fund which is to be raised, a propor-
"It's enough a tax-collector-
Jew
I
.
tionate amount will be assigned for
it's enough!
medical relief work in Russia, which
The damage resulting from tears
"Take me: had a capital of about
will be conducted through the Oze.
200 roubles, I just say I had; sold, shed before one is forty passes of
pawned, borrowed raised 200 roubles. and recovery follows; but the damage
No one feels helpless by the side
Put up a booth in the market, sold resulting from tears shed when one
of a self-helper.
buttons, neckties, suspenders. junk is over forty remains.—Talmud.
like that; had a turnover of 150 rou-
bles a month. Makes 900 roubles for
6 months. What did I have out of it.
Say 200 roubles; all right 300. Comes
the tax collector and appraises one at
6,000 roubles and imposes a tax of
500 roubles. That's taking away my
profit and my capital, mine and those
I from whom I borrowed.... But my
enemies should live like I paid 500
or Economical Transportation
eve
I sou bl es. Bu
eca se e
e if I sold the
skin off my body will I be able to pay
1,000 roubles taxes a year? But to
keep the booth any longer is nut of
the question . . . and you ask me
why didn't I remain in trade! . . ."
Another opines that the trouble is
not altogether due to taxation.
"All right taxes," he says "if
there'd only be something to pay it
with. The trouble is that trading In
at an end."
One co-operative bankrupts 40
Jewish stores. One government mill
puts all the privately-owned mills in
the neighborhood out of business.
Nothing to live from, that's the story

By Z. WENDROFF

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On this important occasion in the lives of the Jewish
people, the result of the past year is manifested when
properly reviewed. Resolutions are being made for
the coming year. We, too, have found that the resolu-
tions which the Wayco Oil Corporation made have
helped establish its fine reputation in the oil trade.

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To be an institution which will personify leadership
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(Editor's Note:—Z. Wendroff, one of the most brilliant Yiddish
writers in Russia, accompanied David A. Brown on his recent tour
of the Jewish colonies in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia.
Ile collected a vast amount of human interest material and informa-
tion which he has embodied in a series of articles which have been
published in the Jewish Daily Forward of New York City and have
now been done into English by a well known American journalist.)

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The Jewish Chronicle, emphatically
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have "equal rights and representation
in the city government" if he is elect-
ed to office Nov. 3.
Mr. Bowles denies that he is a mem-
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claims that he is affiliated with any
!group that is prejudiced against the
I Jewish people and firmly asserts that
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eat semblance of partiality or preju-
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