The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
D|RGES GRANTED
 BY 100000 JEWS Parade Through New York With Black Flags RACE IS CALLED TO ARMS Urge the People to Resent the Attacks of Their Assailants and to Sell
 Their Lives Most
 Dearly.
 
RACE is CALLED TO ARMS

New York, December 4-One hundred thousand Jews. each wearing a band of crepe on the left arm. marched under myriad of black banners through the principal streets of the East Side today, accompanied by bands playing dirges in memory of the Jews massacred in Rus- sia. Hundreds of women and children grouped in singing bands, were scattered throughout the long parade. Immedia tely following the police, who headed the pro- cession. came several hundred boys of synagogues, chanting a dirge. In the long procession which wound through the narrow East Side streets. behind these boys, were IA labor socialistic and Rus sian revolutionary organizations. Ono small band of men. women and children at whose approach nearly every head among the spectators was barred, were survivors of the Kishineff massacres.
 Canopy of Black Flags.
 Mingled everywhere with the hundreds of black flags. which almost made 8 canopy over the paraders, was the Stars and Stripes and the flag of Zion-a six pointed blue star on a white field From shopdoors and tenement house windows which overlooked the procession flew thousands of crepe streamers.
 One of the most impressive features of the parade was the march across Broad way bridge of 10000 Jews of Brooklyn. As they crossed the great center span of the bridge their black flags could be seen, and the sad music heard far up and down the East river.
 The procession marched to the plaza in Union Square, where it resolved itself into a mass meeting.
 Brief, terse resolutions were read by the leaders to thousands of paraders. The voting was done orally with a great shout in which the resolutions were adopted unanimously.
 Call to Arms.
 The resolutions, after reciting the atro- cities and asking the United States to interfere in behalf of the Jews, con- cluded:
 with overwhelming shame and sorrow we realize that eternal vigilance is the pride of the Jews life, and we urge the people to take up arms against their as- sailants. and if need be, to sell their lives most dearly. We call Jews everywhere toward the defense of the Jewish peo:5s."  or dBIlcuituft. iucSt itpoitS Wtit pidctu in distinctive envelopes and separate mail pouches provided for them by the post master general.
 As they arrived they were placed un- opened in an iron safe in the secretary s office and carefully guarded. They were delivered under MT. Wilson's personal su- pervision this morning to the four men whose known integrity qualified them for compiling the report.
 The statisticians were locked in room, from which all telephonic communications had been severed. and special watchman was posted at the door to see that no one went in out.
 Secretary Wilson today fixed the stand ard commercial bales at 300 pounds in- stead of 475
 Bowie Sees Men at Work.
 For the first time in it's history the crop estima ting board of the departmerN of agriculture today admitted persons other than members of the board to be present during It's deliberations. At S:3O o'clock this morning Secretary Wilson escorted Representatives Burleston of Texas and Bowie of Alabama to the board room in order that they might witness the method of preparing the cotton crop estimate The doors were then locked and as the board was delayed in getting up it's estimate, which ordinarily Is an- nounced at noon, the two congressman were unable to go to the capital to par ticipate in the opening session of Con gress.