The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-12
BY M. A. sKRoMNY.
The Demonstration on skuIlanskaya
Roqatka.
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Roqatka.
THE attacks by the patriotic hooll-
i gans against peaceful workers.
students and Jews became holder and
holder, and finally eliminated in the
autumn of 1904 in the murder of an
old innocent woman. She was the
owner of a small tobacco store.
A group of hooligans came into the
store and asked for cigarettes. After
serving them she requested payment
for the cigarettes. Instead of paying
her they began to beat her, finally
killing her.
About week before that happened,
a worker, party member, was badly
beaten up in the city park. Many
similar incidents occurred before.
This murder was the last straw that
broke our patience. We decided to
arrange a political demonstration OF
protest. A special meeting of the
Boyevoy Otriad military organization)
was called and plans made for a de-
monstration. 1t was decide to turn
the funeral of the victim into polit-
ical demonstration.
BY order of the united conference
of all the revolutionary organizations
of the city all party members quit
work on that day and came down to
the hospital from which the funeral
procession was to start. About nine
o'clock in the morning the big court
yard Of the hospital was crowded to
capacity. The courtyard was circled
by a tall stone wall and had big
gate thru which two ambulances could
pass
The 'B. O." Gas the military organ
ization was called took up positions
at the gates, which were at once
locked, and in the Office of the hospital
near the telephones. The administra-
ton was informed that the Russian
soclal-democratic labor party was now
in charge Of the hospital, and that
we will not interfere with the regular
work of the hospital, but would see
to it that no messages shall be sent
to the police. Nobody was allowed
to leave the place without the per-
mission of the "B. O." and AL tele-
phone conversation was listened in to
by the members of the "B. o."
About ten o'clock while the autopsy
was being made in the hospital, we
opened up in the courtyard the first
open-air meeting in the city. Speakers
ranracanfino, no Duccfo,, coaial.dann.
cratic labor party, the socialrevolu-
tionary party (S.-R) and the Jewish
social-democratic organization (Bund),
made fiery speeches exposing the
murderous policy Of the bloody car
istic government. They pointed out
that the real murderers are not in
this city but in Petersburg (now
Leningrad, than the capital of the
czar). They spoke about the bloody
prosecutions of the workers in the
shops and factories, the miserable
sufferings of the landless peasants, the
lack of all freedom to fight their ex-
ploiters which workers abroad have,
no unions, no possibility to meet, no
possibility to organize legally, etc.
"The only way left to us is the
revolutionary struggle for the over
throw of czarism!" said one speaker
Lets then fight this bloody mon
ster that is killing us in the shops
and factories, by long working hours
and unbearable working conditions,
let's fight the government that is
using the murder of innocent people
as the shield for its defencel Free
dom for the workersl Land for the
peasantsl Down with czarism!"
The meeting lasted for over an
hour. While the meeting was going
on, the "B. o." held meeting of its
own. Every member of the "B. o."
who was not stationed at strategic
points was called into the park which
formed part of the great courtyard