Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26
LONDON |NDORSEs
RUSSIAN REVOLT
PROTESTS AGAINST BUTCHERY
OF W0RKINGMEN
Welcomes Revolutionary Movement
and conaratulates the Cars Sub
jects on the Greatness Of
Their Mission
special cable to rhe Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Feb 25-A public meet
ing, convened by the Society of Friends
of Russian Freedom and the Social
Democratic Federation, was held in
the Queens hall Langham place, this
week to protest against 1.-The butchery
of unarmed workmen in Russia" and
to express sympathy with the victims.
J. w. Green, secretary to the Friends
of Russian Freedom, occupied the
chair; and those on the platform in
cluded r. b. Cunningham Graham,
Bernard Shaw, Atherley Jones' X. c.,
M. p; Adolphe Smith. H. w. Hynd-
man and II. Quelch. Letters of regret
were received from many prominent
personages.
Welcome the Revolution
Adolph Smith proposed the following
resolution: This meeting of London
citizens expresses it's profound alb
horrence of the wholesale butchery Of
peaceful demonstrators at st. Peters,
burg on Sunday, January % last, and
subsequent similar outrages in other
towns, and it's detestation of the czar-
dom and bureaucracy whose only
answers to the appeals of the Russian
people were rifle bullets and Cossack
whips. This meeting, remembering
how their forefathers fought for poll
tical freedom, welcomes the revolu-
tionary movement in Russia, and
whilst regretting profoundly the heavy
he Dnc or nQ W..
ing in their struggle for liberty, con-
graduates them on the greatness of
their mission, and trusts that that mis-
sion will soon be fulfilled, so that Rus
sia shall no longer be n stumbling
block to the progress of humanity"
Worlds Leaders Keep Silence
Mr.. Atherly Jones in supporting the
resolution, regretted the silence which
was being observed in regard to
events in Russia by the leaders of pub
lie thought and public action not only
In this country but in every civilized
country in the world There was a
sign of delverance for the Russian
people from the far east, and 1t might
be that the war, the carnage of which
they were all lamenting, would prove
to be the momentum which would Sc
cure them their freedom and liberty.
Jewish Financiers Should Speak
Mr.. Cunningham Graham, who also
supported the resolution, said the work
ers of Russia would answer the czar
in the way that Russian revolution
aries had answered in the past. They
would answer him in deeds. and then
he would say. "Woe to the smaller
number woe to those who have fewest
heads to strike at, woe to those who
have needlessly shed blood"
! If any Lord Rothschild, if only one
of the great Jewish financiers had
the pluck to stand out and to speak,
as would have spoken a high priest
of old, for their down-trodden people,
the great Russian bubble would be
pricked within ten days. There was
one ray of hope, even if they were
unable to stir these men, and that was
in the triumphant advance of the con-
quering Japanese army.
Should Have Been Armed
Mr.. Bernard Shaw said the strikers
made a very great mistake in going
uilarmed to oppose the state. If they
opposed the state the state would
shoot them, and until all the working
class populations of the world under
stood thoroughly that when they stirred
out of their ordinary round to oppose
the state they must do it with arms
in their hands it would be understood
that none of them really meant busi-
ness. He was not there to make pro-
test against the butchery and to SYM
pathize with the victims. He was there
TO sympathize with the revolution.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mously.