The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
The White Russian Socialist Soviet Republic

cided that it would be a good thing
Ito establish White Russian-Jewish
mixed villages.
Jewish Center.
Dubrovno is a peculiar patriarchal
Jewish labor center. For decades
Jewish workers bent their backs over
primitive looms, manufacturing stal-
eisim" Especial garments which Jews
put on when they pray. Two rubles
a week were the earnings on which
the workers did not live but vegetated
in seni-starvation, losing their eye
sight at the loom on which the thin
silk thread was transformed into a
holy shroud. Out of hundreds of
workers thus employed, only a few
have remained. Who stands in need
of such shrouds now?
Textile Workers.
But there is in Dubrovno, side by
side with the dying out taliesim in
dustry, a big textile factory. The
founder of it was Baron Hirsch. At
present it is the Soviet Dubrovno tex
tile factory which produces material
for the peasants. The Jewish textile
workers are experienced skilled work
ers, model Jewish proletarians. In
Soviet White Russia industry is de-
veloping, new factories are being built
and the old factories are again put
into working order. From the dying
out little settlements, from shops and
primitive looms there stream to the
new enterprises woodworking" ele-
ments who enter upon a new life Of
labor.
Towards Light and Culture.
A curious phenomenon is witnessed
at present at the Soviet elections in
the villages: Peasant men and women
bring forward the demand for schools
with seven-years' course. Thirst
for knowledge and study has taken
such stronghold of the rural popu-
lation that schools with four years
course no longer satisfy it.
More Schools.
hllS-
STA 264 schools with a seven years
course and 3,773 schools with four
years course. But this does. not sa5is-
fly the rural population. 1t demands
more and more schools with a seven
years course, including agricultural
schools.
There are at present four UNIVERSE
ties in White Russia-the University
in Minsk, the Agricultural Academy
in Korki, the Veterinary Institute in
Vitebsk, and the Communist Univer-
sity in Minsk, with 1896 students, in
GLIDING AZ per cent peasants and 20
per cent working class elements who
are preparing themselves for work
among the toilers of White Russia.
The G8S pedagogues, lawyers, econo-
mists and medical practitioners, who
graduated from White Russian uni
versities, are already scattered thru
out White Russia. Three workers
faculties, "a polytechnics, and 80
trade schools provide cadres of fully
trained workers.
No Illiteracy.
270 village reading rooms, IS peo-
pies palaces, so clubs, 400 centres for
the liquidation of illiteracy, IL pea
SAINT homes, educational institutes,
35 schools for adult and adolescent
workers, three White Russian thea
tres and one Jewish--such are the Gull
tural and educational centres of White
Russia.
The institute Of White Russian cul-
ture, the "Lenin" scientific research
agricultural institute, the state Ii
brary, book repository, constitute
the sound basis for the development
of scientific thought in White Russia.
An overwhelming majority of the
White Russian intelligentsia has rec
ognized the October Revolution. has
returned from the countries whittier
it had emigrated, and promotes now
culture and education in Soviet White
Russia.
And all this taken together consti-
tute the White Russian S. S. r.
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