The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-07
FIERCE STRIKE
IN LAND OF CAR
Quarter of a Million Men Are
Affected.
FOOD PRICES LEAP RAPIDLY
CoSSACKs' HORSES TRAMPLE ON
GATHERED MEN.

London. Aug. 5.-The Daily Mails
Nikaeloen correspondent, under date OF
August 3 fully confirms the Times cor
respondents account OF strikes in South
Russia. The correspondent says that a
quarter Of a million men are affected.
and that simultaneously strikes Occur
red over vast industrial area he
says that the amount of studied or
ganization and well-coDcealed prepara-
ton was unprecedented in the troubled
annals of Russian labor Prices of the
necessaries Of life are rising by leaps
and bounds.
The strikers. on the whole, have pre-
served exemplary order but this has
not saved them from savage attacks.
directed by General Arzenieff, governor
Of Odessa. Groups of men who as
sembled last Saturday with the inten-
ton Of holding a meeting We're driven
into solid mass by 500 COssa cks.
hacked by two lines of infantry with
fixed bayonets. About 2,O00 strikers
being thus enclosed by a double COR
don, the COssaCks rode through them.
striking right and left with heavy
whips, the fallen men being trampled
under the horses feet.
When the living mass had been
thoroughly kneaded to the governors
viii, continues the correspondent.
numerous men were arrested as sus-
pected agitatOrs. The infantry then
marched off, and the strikers scattered
in dozen directions. with COssacks at
their heels. 1t is rumored that 400
strikers were more or less seriously
injured, and that from six 70 a dozen
succumbed. The whole affair is a typ
zeal piece of administrative savagery.
The extraordinary feature of the move
ment art Odessa is that the police and
gendarmes belonging 10 one depot
threatened TO throw off their uniforms
and risk all the terrors of fnsubOrdina-
ton unless the misera BILE pittance Of
IL to IA pence which they are allowed
daily was increased and the hours Of
labor reduced. Siberia is losing its
terrors even for Russian policemen.
Fires On Every Hand.
The epidemic of incendiarism is
spreading through Russia. Scarcely a
day passes without news of cOnhaera-
tiOns. At Baku alone the destruction
Pas been colossal. Tens Of millions of
gallons of naphtha have been burned.
In twenty-four of the largest towns
the damage due to fire the past month
is estimated at $4,000. 600. The object o.
the bulk of the fires is to get insurance
money. Many of the incendiaries are
Jews. and the insurance comma MES in
per cent. Public opinion in Odessa is
entirely on the side of the striking sail
ors and stokers. A wealthy company
which has been employing men for
years has paid sailors at the rate of
only % shillings a month
Strike Practically Over
The Standards Odessa correspondent.
under date of August 2. says that all
the trades have now resumed work. and
that the strike is practically ended.
but that the city Will remain under
martial law for at least another tel,
days. The strikers did not set all
they demanded, but in most cases were
met with fair-spirited compromises on
the part of the employers.
According to the correspondent. the
local Odessa papers on the day the
dispatch was sent announced that the
governor had issued a statement to the
effect that he had summarily convicted
seventy-one persons and had SEN
fenced them TO three months imDris-
onment for disturbing the public order.
The names given include many Jews
and a few foreigners. The strike end
ed Just in time to avert serious food
riots, as the high price of provisions
led TO ominOus popular threats to storm
the bakeries and flour mills. 1r