The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-20
ASK FUNDS FOR RUSSIAN JEWS
CROWDED. MEETING IN SUPPORT
or BUND MOVEMENT.

Zhitomir Uprising the Declarat1o or lnde-
pendence OF the Perseoutrd--P1StOls to
Oppose Dasgers-women Need Money
10 buy Explosives for Bembs.
Russian Jews. including many refugees
from Kish!neff, packed Cooper Union
last night At mass meeting called TO arouse
interest in the "bundist' movement In
Russia Several of the speakers, how
ever. announced that the real object was
to raise funds to purchase arms 70 oppose
the Gar. A collection was taken. but the
amount contributed was not announced.
The speakers were Abraham Cahan, Louis
Miller, Bolton Hall, Alexander Jonas, Prof.
Agernon Lee and DR.. Rudolph Brodo OF
Vienna. Meyer London presided.
A cable despatch dated Zhitonir and for
warded by the Bund representative at
Geneva was handed 10 the reporters az
they entered Cooper Union. No mention
OF it was made during tbs meeting. The
despatch reads;
formal battle bstween the -Tchorpaya
Sotnjo" and the Self Defense Organization.
Police Project Kurioh. an assistant. Jarotsky.
and Policeman Aeasandrof. and fourteen.
possibly more. are killed. among the latter
Band members Able; and Student Vein
stein. An auxiliary company from Berdit-
chew were arrested and ;iolently beaten ny
police and Cossacks Atrocities in the neigh
boring cities and towns The Government
is organizing pogroms everywhere EAt'a
aid for weapons Is needed
Those in charge Of the meeting explained
that pogroms were societies for the inctte-
lnent of riot and massacre.
As +. prelude, III introducing the speakers,
Chairman London said in part
The Anne rican Jews are not doing their
duty toward their brethren in Russia; III
Kishineff We're an accident, the late
massacres were system. | say that the
wealthy Jews who are not at this meeting
are 20 absorbed in money making that they
are no longer Jews. The Amencah jewish
Iniionaires where are their souls their
hearts and patriotism? In their pocket
books. You see the poor Fact Side pedier.
bending his back at the sight of a police
man in uniform, paying his brides 20 get
little concession, giving up a days pay 10
help his brethren In Russia.
"'The Christian breaches nonreslstance'
They tell us 70 turn the other cheek. ne
Bund saws yes-but after the enemy has
struck the other cheek get hoin OF the
fellow and break every bone IN his daIn1a-
bic body. We have been patient. but we
realize now that we must meet force by
force; the assassin with the revolver.
Bolton Hall said in part;
Some of our wealthy Jews say that they
would contribute to the relief funds but
must not do 1t openly lest the condition OF
the Jews be made worse, and they make
that an excuse for not contributing at all;
but tell YOU that 1t is not tho Jews VINO
are prosecuted. but those who would change
bureaucracy and end intolerable despotism.
We need never fear making their condition
worse. for in Russia to-day the condition OF
the levolutonists could not be worse.
Louis Miller spoke In Iiddish. after re-
peated calls for that language, and awak-
ened enthusiasm. He said in part
"kshinef should be written of az Il
massacre where children and women were
murdered without hand being raised in
their defense. Even dumb animal viii
fight for the protection Of its young. The
Zhtomr revolt should be known as the
Fourth Of July of the Russian Jews their
Declaration OF Independence. 1t was the
bloody day that the Jews declared that they
We're human beings.
This Ineeting j. mainly TO get funds.
When the assassin comes with the dagger
he must meet him with the revolver. The
women in Russia are learning to make
bombs. What they need now Is rnAGey
to buy explosives for them