Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-18
TO END MONARCHY
St. Petersburg In Ferment
From Political Upheaval-
IMPERIAL LANDS GIFT 10 PEASANTS
Ambassadors at Capital Taking Meas
ures 10 Protect Their Country mcn.
strike May re Up Roads and
Prevent Outside Aid.

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ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. liz. -
"Down with the court martialr Down
with the death penaltyf' Down with
martial law in Poland and in all Rus
star Such is the text Of the work
mems proclamation in declaring a
great strike here.
The Social Democrats here have had
an impressive response ON the part Of
all organizations of workmen to their
summons for general political strike
to demonstrate their solidarity with
the struggle of their Polish comrades
for autonomy and to protest against
the execution of the mutinous sailors
at Cronstadt. The men walked out of
all the big mills and factories. and the
employees of the Baltic and Warsaw
railroads, the printers and other class
es of laborers struck, but the shops in
the center Of the city were not closed.
Troops have taken charge of the cleo
trio light stations, which are operated
by sailors, so that the city was not in
darkness last night.
IL the Finnish Socialists join their
Russian comrades and tie up the Fin
nish railroad the only egress from
the capital would be by water, and
the freezing of the gulf of Finland a
fortnight hence would close the last
exit. The foreign embassies share the
public alarm, and the British embassy
is advising the immediate removal of
women and children.
All Russia is again in the grip of
great political labor upheaval ordered
by the workmens strike committees,
which now is completely under the
domination of the social revolution
lists, whose leaders openly proclaim
that their ultimate object is the COM
plete overthrow of the monarchy and
the establishment of a democratic re-
public.
The committees proclamation says:
1.-THE imperial government continues
to walk over our corpses. 1t court
martials the bold soldiers and sailors
of Cronstadt who rose in defense Of
their rights and national freedom: it
enclrcles weak and oppressed Poland
with the iron ring of martial law.
1.-THE workmen's council calls on the
revolutionary proletariat Of st. Peters
burg to renew the general political
strike. which has already demonstrate
ed its dread power, in order to show
brotherly solidarity with the revolu-
tionary soldiers and sailors as well as
with the revolutionary proletariat Of
notooJ T az fba xx,npk man nf Ct pa
tersburg cease work at once"
A report says that ukase will short
IL be issued whereby large portion
of the imperial domain, which covers
a third of European Russia and which
at present is the property of the en-
peror and grand dukes, will be given
to the peasants.
Sensational reports are current here
that the "Black Hundred" had begun
rioting on the Viborg side of the river
and that great disorders were In prog
ress in the Alexandrovsky (the Hebrew
markeD quarter of the capital on the
Sadovaia.
Advices from vladivostok indicate
that the mutiny OF the soldiers and
sailors has been quelled and order par
TALLY restored, the commandments hav.
ing agreed to send home the reservists
and time expired men detained there.
The emperor and the empress and
their children have left Peterhof for
Tsarskoe-Selo.
Spencer Eddy, American charge here,
has cabled the state department as fol
lows:
Things are quieter at vladivostok,
but the trouble still continues, and
business is suspended. Recently i'm
ported goods are being guarded in the
'go-downs' by soldiers"