The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
POLAND UNDER
MARTIAL LAW
Strike Movement Spreads
and COssackS Are in FIRE.
quent Clashes With MObs
COAL MINERS GO OUT
Employers Order the Men
to Return to Work To
Day or Accept Discharge
COAL MINERS GO OUT

LODI, Russia, Feb. 5.-The situation
here has reached a critical stage and
it will be decided tomorrow whether
the conflict shall end or the strike be
continued. The employers met on Sat
urday and decided to reopen all their
factories on Monday, when men report
ing for work will be re-engaged and
the remainder discharged. A large
number of workmen are disposed TO
resume, but fear that the malcontentS
will employ coercion.
The newly appointed Governor Cen
eral, Archimovitch, is giving the closest
attention to the situation. In the
course of an interview this afternoon
the Governor General said that to-mor-
row would bring the critical test. III
the strikers once resumed, he said, the
strike would be broken. Being asked
whether he considered the strike po-
litical movement, the Governor General
said:
Yes and no. 1t is labor move
ment, but the strikers specific de-
mands are suggested by political agi-
tators, many of whom are foreigners.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6-The
strike movement in Poland has spread
to the Governments of Warsaw, KaliSz,
Lublin and Suvalki. Martial law has
been declared in Kalisz, Radon and
Sei6lec.
The workmen to the number of 1000
in the car shops here have drawn up
a manifesto repudiating the delegates
who were put forward as representing
them in the deputation which visited
Emperor Nicholas at TsarskOe Selo on
Wednesday. They assert that these
men were selected by the employers
and We're not representatives Of the
workmen- The employees of one or two
other factories may follow suit, but
the workmen in general are inclined to
stand by the deputation.
There were few slight collisions be-
tween Lessner's workmen and the po-
lice guarding the factory yesterday.
Poland, however, continues to be the
storm center of the disturbances.
Though the strike has ceased in some
blishments,- it has assumed a more
important phase by its extension to
the great coal mines and sugar fac
tories, and three more Governments
have been placed under martial law.
Police and Cossacks have had to break
up a number of demonstrations and
quell disorders, but as yet there has
been no repetition of fighting on the
scale of the first collisions.
An imperial ukase has been issued
appointing NJ. Saburoff a member of
the Council of the Empire. president Of
the special conference to debate the
committee of Ministers proposals for
reform of the Senate and for the fram-
ing of laws for the local administrative
courts. The Emperor expressed a de-
sire for the speedy conclusion of the
labor conference.
Foreign Minister Lamsdorff in an Of
fetal note to the British Embassador
has formally disavowed the action of
Deputy Chief of Police Roudneff of
Moscow in exhibiting a placard show
ing the strikers were assisted with
money from Japan and other sources
for the purpose of crippling the Gov
ernment works.
SOSNOVICE, Feb. 5.-Strikers to the
number of $4,000 to-day marched from
Domorovo to this place and attempted
to reach the Warsaw station but Cos
sacks drove them back without using
their weapons.