The Jewish outlook., 1905-09-08


a gang of rowdes gathered in the lowest
resorts of the town. The news of the massa-
ere is contained in private dispatches, no
official report having been made. 1t is said
the government has prevented the sending OF
any press dispatches relating to the affair.
Soldiers are said to have been lined up at
the entrance to the streets in which the riots
were going on, in order to proven. the Jew
ish selfhelp organization from going to the
rescue of their brethren In addition to those
killed there are sai, to have been nearly 200
injured by the rioters whom the police and
soldiers permitted to escape after the Jewish
houses had been pillaged and wrecked. The
dispatches state that further outbreaks are
feared and that further evidence has been
discovered of public conspiracy against the
Jews throughout southern Russia, confirming
the news to that effect from Odessa last
week.
The London Times published the fol-
lowing from correspondent: The organ
ization of pogrom, or riots, against the pro-
motors of reform agitation, and especially
against the Jews, is being actively pushed
forward by the interior provincial officials
with the connivance of the higher authorl-
ties. The self-defense committees and pa
trolls formed and armed by the Jewish Bund
have done much during the last few months
to limit the activities of the pOgromists, but
every now and then weak spot is detected
in the Bund system and thither the reaction
aries dispatch their BLACK hundreds to Stay
derness for reforms. Zhitomir afforded one
such opportunity owing to the weakness OF
the local defense committee, but even there
the pOgrOmStS were taught severe lesson
by the armed bundiSts and the Christian
students, who fought shoulder to shoulder
with them. According to a secret circular
sent to all it's committees by the Bund.
fresh pogrom was to have broken out last
Sunday at Dvinsk but it was apparently de-
feated by the prompt precautions of the
local self-defense organization. The circu-
lar states that it can be proved that the as
sistant pristaff of Dvinsk, one Grusinsky,
actively supervised the preparations for the
pOgrOm, and employed policemen in beating
up recruits. BelOpOlsky, the notorious
black hundred" chieftain, was invited to
the town, and it was arranged with him that
a large number of his most experienced hoo
ligans should be brought to Dvinsk at so
much head. This is the way in which the
bureaucracy is now trying to strike at the
roots of the constitutional agitation; for it
is needless to say that, if the revolutionary
proletariat can be terroriZed, the liberal
Zemstvoists will hold meetings and draft
petitions in vain.
Vilna-One of the leaders of the Jewish
Workingmen's Union, known the Bund,
gave some interesting details as to this or
ganiZation, which counts to-day nearly 10000
adherents. The association began in 1897
with a Socialist propaganda in the regions
of Mnsk and Wilma. Speedily the idea
grew up that the deliverance of the op-
pressed race might be affected by means
of close alliance between all it's members.
and in 1898 sent to Wilma a well known de-
tective from Moscow named Zoubatoff, with
full powers to stamp out the movement.
Eighty Jewish workingmen were arrested in