Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-02
MET LITTLE FATHER
Emperor Talks to Russian Workmen Face to Face.
BAYOyETS FOR ALL RIOTOUS MOBS

Csar Will Investigate All Wrongs,
 Be Done to Improve PeO-
 ple's Condition.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2-Person- al assurances of his intention to ameli- crate the conditions and remove the causes, insofar as they are economic, which led to the recent strike, were delivered by Emperor Nicholas to delegation of workingmen representing all the leading factories of St. Peters burg, including representatives of thir- ty-two of the largest industrial estab- lishments and the Baltic and Franco Russian shipyards. the Putiloff Iron works and the Russo American Rubber works, who at his invitation journeyed to Tsarskoe Selo and were received ill audience in the hall of the Alexander palace, where he has his winter resi- dence
 The emperor entered the hall, accom- panied by Grand Duke George Mix hailovitch, General Hesse, the minister of the imperial court and the com mandant of the palace.
 The workmen bowed deeply to his majesty, who said:
 Good day, my children
 The workmen replied:
 we wish your majesty good health"
 The emperor then said:
 Il have summoned you in order that you may hear my words from myself and communicate them to your con- panions. The recent lamentable events with such sad but inevitable results have occurred because you allowed yourselves to be led astray by traitors and enemies to our country.
 "When they induced you to address a petition to me on your needs they desired to see you revolt against me and my government. They forced you to leave your honest work at a period when all Russian workmen should be laboring increasingly in order that we might vanquish our obstinate enemy. Strikes and disgraceful demonstrations led tine crowds to disorders which obliged and always will oblige the au- thorities to call out troops. As a re- suit innocent people were victims. q know that the lot of the workman is not easy. Many things require im- provement, but have patience.
 "You will understand that it is neces- sary to be just toward your employers and to consider the condition of our industries. But to come to me as re- bellious mob in order to declare your wants is crime.
 "In my solicitude for the working classes will take measures which will assure that everything possible will be done to improve their lot and secure an investigation of their demands through legal channels. I am convinced of the honesty of the workmen and their de- votion to myself. and I pardon their transgression.
 Return to your work with your com. rades and carry out the tasks allotted to you.
 { May God assist you"
 4 dispatch from Odessa says that Chief of Police Galovine was shot near the police station in the center of the city and was wounded in the right shoulder. The wound is not danger. ous.
 Like a wave caused by the falling of q stone the strike movement however, is spreading over the great sea of Rus sian industrial life, and, while St. Pc tersburg and Moscow, where the trou- bles began, are now placid, the work men of Poland and other provinces are not yet calm, and the ripple has reached to far of lrkutsk and other Si- berian towns.
 The current gossip to the effect that M. Bouligan, former governor of Mos COW, will succeed Prince Sviatopolk- Mirsky in the mSnistry of the interior is another straw tending to confirm the surmise that Grand Duke Sergius is the dominant influence in the grand ducal faction.
 It was rumored at Warsaw last night that thousands of workmen in the ex' tensive coal districts of Dombrova near the frontier. will strike today. This would be extremely serious, as the. mines would immediately be food ed If the pumping ceased.