The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28
lac sIauahter Of the Innoce ats.

A FTER the first successful street
Il demonstration the revolutionary
organization rapidly began to grove
The downtrodden, exploited and dis
satisfied workers of the city began
to flock to the organization. The
twelve and, fourteen-hour day, the
endless fines, the beatings from the
foreman and the bosses, the inability
to organize legally in any way or man
ner drove the workers into the ranks
of the underground revolutionary
party. In the spring of 1903 the or
ganization had grown to such an ex-
tent that it was decided to arrange
another and bigger demonstration.
Preparations for this demonstration
were under way when suddenly stran-
&c and wild rumors began to spread
all over the city. AT first we laughed
at these rumors. What sane man
could believe that the Jews are using
christian blood in baking 'matzos"
(the Passover bread used by religious
Jews on Eastern? 1t seemed so ridi-
culous that any sane man would just
laugh at it. But thousands of circul-
ars appeared and were spread on the
market places, tea rooms, saloons etc,
warning the christian population to
watch its children, for Gin connection
with the approaching Jewish Easter
they will need christian blood for
matzos" The local subsidized anti
semitic newspaper at the same time
began violent campaign along the
same tliResssiva=
And then a christian child suddenly
disappeared.
The alarm quickly spread all over
the city. The backward elements of
the christian population, mostly Hitter
ate, "the dark people" as they called
themselves, began to repeat the
stories of the christian blood in the
Jewish matzos." The anti-semite
newspaper carried warnings in big
type: "Christians! Watch your chill
dren!"
TINE Jewish population, the shop
4 keepers, the poor market peddlers
began to tremble with fear. The class
conscious Jewish and christian work
ers were indignant and did what they
could to stop these wild rumors. The
shopkeepers had recourse to their old
and tried means of dealing with the
government officials: rich collection
was taken up and sent with a delega-
ton to the chief of police and the gov
ernor. Both promised to keep law
and ORDER" but at the same time
warned them to keep an eyes on the
workers. The shopkeepers and land
lords willingly and gladly promised
to do so.
Two days before Easter the child
was found living with some relatives
In the suburb of the city. The anti
semitic newspaper forgot to mention
the fact The Jewish shopkeepers
were happy and doing business as
usual.
"You see, it worked, they told
those who participated in making up
the collection for the chief of police
che found the child"
The revolutionary organizations de-
cided to postpone the demonstration
to a more opportune time.
NEERRILY changed the spurs of the
Il dragons who were dancing with
their girls to the tunes of the mechan-
ical organ of the merry-go-round on
Easter. The big square of the new
market was crowded to capacity with
drunken soldiers, peasants from the
nearby villages, and pleasure seekers
in general. The square was not paved
and the clouds of dust raised from the
sand by the dancers and the enormous
crowd, foated over the square cover
ing them, the pleasure devices and
everything in sight finally disappear