English Translation

dE - 33 - higher and better paid' positions, which he retained also by virtue of his skill and scrupulousness against the Ukrainian. This also explains the transfer of enterprises by employees, where there were about 400 employees of higher pay levels with a workforce of 1200. Of these 40o employees, up to 90% are Jews. In a brick factory near Proskuerov, which had 200 Ukrainian workers, the director and vice-director, the technical and commercial director, the camp administrator and principal accountant, the cashier and the head of personnel were Jews. Similar attitudes were found, for example, in the mining area in Krivoy-Rog. In trade, the Jew had the organization of the T o r g s as the basis for his better existence and control of economic life in his hand. Here, too, the Schlüssel positions and thus the better posts of Jews were occupied. In the artisanal sector, the Artele were often led by Jews regardless of whether there was a manual knowledge or not. It is a mistake, by the way, to assume that there was no individual retail trade in Soviet Russia. Underground! The shortage of goods was not as great as is generally assumed. Nor were the prices, which were precisely fixed by the Soviet government, as well as the price of the goods.