A conference is called by the Jewish Communists of New York for this Saturday afternoon at the Workers’ Center, 26 Union Square, to make preparations for a counter-demonstration against the day of protest and mourning which has been called for March 16 to demonstrate against religious persecutions in Russia, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns. In their call to the Jewish workers, the Communists say:
“What has aroused this gang so much now? Have they really got the Jewish interests at heart? If that were so, they would have to kiss the soil of the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union is the only country where the Jewish masses have full rights and where their lives are absolutely secure. But the dark gang doesn’t care for the Jewish masses; it cares for capitalistic interests. It is interested in helping the remnants of capitalism in the Soviet Union.
“If this gang really has the interests of the Jewish masses at heart, why doesn’t it protest against the Polish Fascist government, against the Roumanian Fascist government, against the persecutions of Jews in the other ‘civilized countries’? Why do they protest only against the one country which did grant full freedom to the Jews? They do it because they hate the Soviet Republic; they hate it not on account of religion, but because it abolished capitalism.”
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