The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-28
THE PEOPLES ARMY AGAINST
THE CARS.

The Russian railroad strike, which
already extends over more than half
of European Russia, shows that the
work of organization has made rapid
Roadway thsse last few months among
1.-THE di affected Last spring when the
Esprit of rebellion was most violent,
there were riots in score OF places
at once. But they rema ned local
outbreaks, although, as at Odessa
| they cost thousands or lives and mill
lens in property. The people had
common grievances. HuI they had not
learned to cooperate for redress.
In the government railway service
there are 400 goo employees. They
managed to prepare secretly for a
general strike. for they caught the
government unawares. Not improbab
ly it had been lulled into false Sc
curity by the subsistence since mid
summer of Widespread 'sorder even
in Poland The war Ct assassination
with the bomb dagger and pistol has
been carried on relentlessly against
the officials, police and Cossacks but
1t has been kept up by individual
revolutionaries, not by the populace.
Trepoff has boosted that st. Peters
burg had been effectuaIly ubdued I'M
Ter his stern rule Yet today not
wheel is turning on any railroad out
If the capital and the principal fac
tories have gone ON strike in sym
nathy with the railroad strikers.
There is more at the bottom Of the |
present troubles than a demand for |
higher wages long since promised and |
az long withheld. 1t bears the signs of |
a far-reaching political movement in |
which the hand of the Social Demo I
Gratis IS apparent They have learned /
by bitter experience that they cannot |
make permanent Roadway against /
the autocracy so long as It can move
large bodies of troops quickly 10 any |
seat of disturbances. Their. hope oh |
viously is to paralyze the government !
by rendering the transport Of troops |
and then by melting a
3tgppago Of all industry, So far there |
has been little violence. considering
the extent of the strike The rail |
roads are administered und-r martial |
law but what can martial law do |
when hnudreds of thousands of en- |
ployes and their sympathizers remain
passive in their resistance to authori
~?
The strike crisis comes inoppor
funely for the Car He has just been
seeking new loan of s35O000 900.
and the French bankers have forced
rim TO reduce his demands by 500.
100000 win they draw their purse
strings tight again in apprehension Of
/ revolution?
On top of all II is reported that the
1Zar proposes To go abroad for two
months and leave Witte in control
After the St. Petersburg massacres
asst January, in fear of his life, he
lept himself a prisoner in his palace
at Tsarskoe-Selo Even Louis XVI.
earned a certain kind of respect by
laring to face his subjects when they
we're against an order of things which |
denied them bread Tor their children'5
months In return for their labor How
will this Cars fortune rare If nc
runs away in terror?
It is significant that White, in re.
plying to a deputaton of workmen
who demanded universal suffrage.
made the admission. So foreign to the
power: Remember that
the government may fall. but with II
2ou will perish by falling into the
bands Of the bourgeoisie You are fight /
ng Whom tho r7a~-s ahloet cnIns- / |
lr hints at the bare possibility of the |
government being Upset, Russia must
indeed be shaking on its foundations |