New-York tribune., 1918-12-12
Meyer London Will
Ask Congress to
Protest Massacre
Tells Audience He Proposes
Joint Resolution Against
Killing of Jewish Race
in Calicia. and Poland

Representative Meyer London will
introduce joint resolution protesting
against the massacre of Jews in
Galicia and Poland in Congress to-day
or tomorrow, he told an audience of
several thousand New York Jews, who
attended a mass meeting of protest
against the recent pogroms, in the
Madison Square Garden last night. His
announcement was cheered.
The resolution, the text OF which was
read by representative London, states,
in part, that "it is the sense of the
Congress that the practice by people
of acts of violence against its minori-
ties, whether they be religious, racial,
national or political minorties, is evl-
dence OF the lack of fitness of that
people to claim membership in the
family of civilized nations" The reso-
lrtion concuded:
Resolved, That one of the tasks of
the international peace conference
should be to secure not only the rights
Of the smaller nationalities to an indie
PENDENT and unhampered existence, but
to secure the right of every minority
within the boundaries Of every nation
to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness"
owe come here in no spirit of hatred
against the Poles, who have been the
victims of centuries of oppression"
said Mr.. London. But | see in these
massacres an attempt on the part of
reactionaries to preserve the past
against free Poland and to use the
masses for that purpose"
Jacob H. Schiff declared that he
hoped that the first act of the peace
!
Semitic outbreaks. He read cable
from a group of Jewish rabbis in the
pogrom districts detailing the horrors
OF the massacres and urging that aid be
sent at once.
"Jews," said Mr.. Schiff, "have bled
and died for freedom, and what does it
profit us if such outrages as these are
tolerated? The war has ceased and
peace is about to come. Shall the war
against the Jew never cease? Oh. that
my voice could reach President Wilson
so that he might know how we want
him to do that which he surely means
to do and see that these horrors cease!
"1f a League of Nations is formed
Poland must be made to understand
that she will be first to fall victim to
the police force of the world if she
continues these acts. The Jew has al
ways been the protestant against OPP
preston. We demand now that these
small nations, Poland among the fore
most, who are coming to the peace
table to demand protection in their
national life, give proof, before it is
granted that they themselves under
stand and practice freedom and liberty
toward those within their lands. and
cs'~~"'o - 'o'vard the Jews
Mr.. Schiff declared that Dmowski
"a, committee hat is oi1i0 in O
Poland's affairs, now in Paris, "should
never have been tolerated on these
shores" during his recent visit to
America.
Gle never had the shame to deny
that his crowd was responsible for the
boycott of Jews, which has been going
on in Poland for several years, causing
much suffering and misery, and even
here in free America he gloried in it,
Sholom Asch, the Jewish writer said
that the Jews in Poland have done
more to liberate that land than the
Paderewskis, who sided with Czarism"
Resolutions protesting against the
pogroms were passed and will be sent
to President Wilson and the American
delegates to the peace conference