THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

j The St; Petersburg, correspondent o£ the I Jewish ChronicieyMntiiig'.on the/lsiilt!, : j says There are. at the present time raanyso-called patriots who do not cease.to, ( utter the old calumny that,the Jewis ayjerso' tb' phyweal: laboiir, and yet he, is boing .de- , barred from gaining his living by this.; means. i The. 1 ;' tempovarylpreacriptionß'iof •. Ignatieff did not go far enough for the objects of 1; our 'patriotic 'XSminwt'ratipn, '' so ; thfey' are to be made evjep more : strictj with'the result that nu'merous'Jewislv agriculturat labourers are from, the Village's where their families 'have Been settled from time •immemorial Yet ey'pn th 6 'temporary prescriptions!, gavo them the right of residence' : until contracts expired or' they transferred their immovable property. In the district of Selschen (government of Kowno) alone upwards, of-800 .Jewish families will, within the next month, becompelled to give up their places of abode. A similar 'fate is in store' for almost'as many families in Ponewsech district of the same government; and in other governments expulsions continue to .take pla'ce, though on a smaller scale. Still more 1 ' lamentable are the prospects of Jewish artizans, who, availing themselves of the rjght of migrating from place to place without-paying •' deduction. money,' have established' themselves outside ithe Jewish} zone of settlement.'' • That', they work when' they -havo' employtnent, : and that alljtheir papercTare in.'exo'elleht ! '6rder no longer suffices; they must work.eveii. when\tbey have none, otherwise 1 they ' Jay. 'tlfem'selves open ,to the dangec of being denounced one fine day by the worthless spies of the detective police for not plying: their occupation, a' charge ,which them to be mercilessly transported within, the zone of settlement, ,A case, has been brought under ray notice of i3 a Jewish tailor Who had,lived , for, many, years in one and the same house, and had been employed by the ' Pristaw'.of the ; town,; andwho, notwithstanding, the'evidence of this ; funotippary, was expelled from', the. place because he was found not- to be: at' work. It is proposed here'to go even further, and to appditit at the expense/ of. Jewish:artisans a special inspector, whose duty it will 1 be to Watch over, themand ' see' that they are employed at. their' various.,handcrafts. This project. has-been/,fathered '> by'!. tl]e , civil governpivof' St. .Petersburg; head qf ; the /guild,. who between them 1 have arranged-that; Jewish-masters phal)• contribute 3' roubles and their employes ,60; 1 kopecks a' year towards the salary, of .the 1 proposed The Scheme''has" already .been-'submittod ;;to, ; ; .the,; Eina.npe Minister for his. approval." i