The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-09
STRIKERS TEAR UP RAILWAY.
RUSSIiN DISORDER SPREADS TO
SIBERIA.
iiuilnOus Polish Rcser,istS Join the Rioters
at Irkutsk Japanese Also Said to
Have Cut the Hallwny-ReEcwal OF
strikes IN the Russian Capital.

STRIKES IN lhc huHslAh NApi'"''
spccfai clN, D,,pa'che, to THE suN.
ST PRTFRsBlPG Feb. s-A majority OF
the worlmeu in the Governments cartridge
factory at Nassili OstroN, where 5000 hands
are employed. quit work this afternoon.
Many OF the smaller factories in the same
district have also been closed by their men
going on strike.
The motives prompting the men TO resume
the struggle are partly resentment against
the constitution OF the so-caled workman's
populations that have been received by the
Gar. il being asserted that they consisted
Of Government overscers and not work
men and partly against Governor Genera
TrepoH's instructions to manufacturers
and the directors of Government factories
not to parley with the workmen, but to
treat them as strikers who have refused
pardon and who arc therefore lawbreakors.
The employers are more concerned regard
ing the Governments attitude than anxious
TO reopen their factories.
Tho workmen who resumed in the kol-
pno and Putilof factories to-day ceased
work promptly at the expiration OF eight
hours and left the factories. They made
no disturbance. Governor General TrePof
thereupon summoned Gen. Loubinoff to an
interview. Gen. Louhnon who repre-
sents the factories owned by the Govern
ment. was instructed to post notices in
the factories that unless the men resumed
work under the old como lions all the Gov
eminent factories would be closed.
Although the Government offered to
allow Iissners 900 men, who destroyed
the posters Of the Emperor's speech, TO
continue at work. and the management
of the factory granted all their demands
"a TO wages and hours. the men refuse
to resume until the general legal status Of
all workmen shall have been satisfactorily
defined
The students in the forestry. engineer
ing and other technical establishments
are circulating and adopting programme
very much like the political portion of
the workmen s demands.
The ability Of the workmen to hold out
and continue unemployed is causing the
Government great anxiety.
LoDz Feb. Tho manufacturers, have
determined. il the men resumed work, to
grant ten hour day and increase wages.
At a meeting Of strikers this evening
the ofer OF the employers were rejected
PARIS Feb. S.--A despatch to the Aurore
from st. Petersburg says that a general
strike has taken place at Irkutsk, in east
ern Siberia II includes the men in the
service of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The telegraph and post Offices are closed.
WARSAW; Feb. S.-The number OF men
who returned to work to-day was in spite
of official threats. insignificant, and the
resumption Of labor was confined to the
- alr ko
city ia apparently quiet, but a renewal of
the troublee is expected The chief Of police
to-day ordered that all gates and doors
should i've kept locked
The proprietors OF thirteen of the prin-
cipal business establishments in the city
have addressed a memorial TO the Minister
Of the Interior asking to be allowed to take
part in any conference that may be called
to regulate labor disputes under the Cars
manifesto of Dec %
LONDON. Feb sA despatch from st
Petersburg says that the students OF the
Military Academy and of the Academy
of Medicine have decided 10 abandon their
work in spite Of the orders of Governor
General TrepoI, because. as they say,
police supervision and interference make
the proper pursuit OF their studies i'm
possible
The director of the Nevsld naval con-
struction yard has refused to dismiss strik-
ers whose names appear upon list pre-
pared for that purpose by the police. He
bases his refusal on the ground that the
men are experts and that IL would be inn
possible TO replace them.
A despatch from st Petersburg SAYS
that NJ. kokovzoff Minister of Finance
has decided to memorabilia the Gar TO
allow workmen to take part under the law
in measures for the improvement Of their
condition and to organize Joint concilia-
ton board The Minister believes it posi-
bic TO grant them a ten hour day and he
also considers it feasible 10 fix a date for
the introduction OF an eight hour day
LONDON, Feb. a. The St Petersburg
correspondent Of the Express says that
strikers and mutinous Polish reservists
have torn up thousand yards of the
Siberian Railway twenty miles east Of
Irkkutsk The strike has extended to the
railway guards with The Jesuit that sixty
miles Of the track OF the railway is wholly
unprotected. 1t is reported that there is
little doubt that the Japanese have blown
up the line between Mukden and Hardin.
The recurrence Of the strikes seems
to be a beginning OF a general resump-
ton Of tho labor agitation. Little can
be said beyond this at present. but the
unrest previously noted in THE Suns
dispatches continues everywhere, and
rlmor points to Sunday az tho probable
occasion for united action. This, possibly,
will not be aggressive, but it will be none
the less determined