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206 M. MISHKINSKYto the pogrom. 51On April 27, it spoke out in a tone quite differentfrom any appeal made to the peasant copyholders, in a leaflet writtenin Russian:Братья рабочие. Бьете вы жидов, да не разбираючи. Не за то надобить жида, что он жид и по своему богу молится, бог ведь для всех один,а за то его надо бить, что он грабит народ, что он кровь сосет израбочего человека. Судя по совести, иной наш купец али фабрикантхуже жида грабит и разоряет рабочего, высасывает из него последниесоки и сколачивает себе капитал, да растит свое брюхо толстое. Такнеужели же такого кровопийцу оставлять в покое, а жида иного, который,может, не легче нашего добывает насущный хлеб тяжким трудом,ремеслом каким али черною работой — ужли и его грабить? Рабочегобеднягу, хоч бы он был и татарин, грех обижать. Если уж бить, такбить зауряд всякого кулака-грабителя, что из нашего пота-крови капиталсебе наживает, бить всякое начальство, что грабителей нашихзащищает, что стреляет в народ за какого-нибудь подлого миллионщикаБродского и убивает невинных. Так вот они новые порядки. Постоим же,братцы, дружней за свое правое дело.Brother workers. You are beating the Jews (zhidov), but indiscriminately. Oneshould not beat the Jew (zhid) because he is a Jew and prays to God in his ownway — indeed, God is one and the same to all — rather, one should beat himbecause he is robbing the people, he is sucking the blood of the working man. Tospeak honestly, any merchant or factory owner of our own, more badly than theJew, robs and ruins the worker, sucks him dry, piles up capital for himself, indeed,becomes big-bellied. Then should such a bloodsucker be left in peace, whileanyone who is a Jew, who perhaps earns his daily bread no more easily than one ofour own, at hard work, some trade, or unskilled labor — now, then, is he to berobbed, too? It is a sin to hurt a poor worker, even if he be a Tartar. If we are tobeat, then let us beat at the same time every kulak-robber who is making capitalfrom our sweat and blood — beat all the authorities who defend those who rob us,who shoot among the people because of some villainous millionaire Brodskii, 52 andKutaisov, who had been ordered to make an inquiry into the pogroms and theircauses. Kutaisov's report referred to the union several times. Additional materialand analysis, especially about Kiev, is included in V. P. Rybyns'kyi, "Protyievreis'kyirukh r. 1881-ho na Ukraini," in Zbirnyk prats' Zhydivs'koi istorychnoarkheohrafichnoikomisii (Kiev), bk. 2, 1929, pp. 139-71. <strong>See</strong> <strong>also</strong> the bibliographyin Salo W. Baron, The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets (New York andLondon, 1964), p. 359, fn. 1.51Venturi (Roots of Revolution, p. 523) erroneously depicts an earlier action asthe union's last. In Istoriia Kyieva, vol. 1 (Kiev, 1963), pp. 383-84, more thanone-third of the union's existence is wholly ignored.52A Jewish family of capitalists living in Kiev, eminent especially in the sugarindustry.

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