The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-01-27
NICHOLAS THRONE ToTTERiNG.
Spread of Strike Movement Portends
BIoodier Occurrence to Come.

BIoodier Occurrence to Come.
Berlin. Jan. 25-The Lokal Anzeiger
has received a special from ST. Pc
to~sburg saying there is no longer my
1T about the present movement
lg a revolution. It's leaders are
Selling every opportunity to work
upon the feelings of the burdened peo-
pie, filing all with enthusiasm, even
petty state officials joining the cause
of freedom.
Ominous news ONE filtering in
from Russian provinces, especially
Moscow, Odessa and Kieff, and the I'M
certainty of what is happening there
is worse than bad news.
Every one in the city is in fever
heat, feeling that danger is imminent.
Moscow Joins Movement.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-The most
startling feature in the situation last
night was the news that several fac
tories in Moscow have closed and that
the workingmen in the old capital of
Moscow are repeating the tactics Of
their fellow workmen of the new cap
ital, marching from shop to shop and
mill to mill. demanding that the es-
Establishments be shut down. The whole
city is reported to be in a state of
great excitement over the new of the
bloodshed here Sunday which has
precipitated Immediately the strike
that had been planned for Wednesday.
Moscow has nor workmen and less
troops than st. Petersburg, and be-
sides is just now the heart of~the
liberal movement, and the danger of
Bloodier Occurrences
there than have been witnessed here
are proportionately greater. A ris-
ing at Moscow is also more likely to
have greater results industrially and
politically than that in st. Petersburg.
According to private reports the
workmen in several other big cities.
notably Kharkoff, where large locomo-
tive works are located, already have
completed plans for a general sus-
pension of work.
Moreover reports are current that
the workmen, who otherwise would be
forced back into the shops or starve,
have received assurances of financial
support from the sources which hith-
erto have furnished
The Sinews Of War
to the liberal and socialistic agitation,
but have never before been in touch
with the labor movement.
If the strike becomes general all
over Russia, and especially if the rail
roads are drawn in it might immedi-
ately force the nation to make peace
with Japan.
The situation appears grave from
every standpoint; but the authorities,
although apparently somewhat Devil
dered, declare their purpose to stand
firm, maintaining that it is their first
duty to preserve order, and scouting
the idea of actual revolution.
Gar to Make Concession.
There are extremely significant re-
ports that Emperor Nicholas, in max
ing the decision at the extraordinary
meeting of the council of the empire
at Tsarskoe Selo yesterday to de-
clare St. Petersburg in a state of
siege, announced that he had resolved
to issue a manifesto to the people with
a view to calming them, promising to
create a mixed commission Of work
men and officials to investigate and
| decide the questions OF the demands
of the strikers, especially the one at
fecting the hours of labor, which Rus
sian law fixes at eleven. The repre-
sentatives of the workmen, according
to this report, are not to be appoint
ed, but selected by the laboring men
themselves. This would be the first
concession to the representative prin-
ciple.
According to report: the emperor
will alIo promise to investigate Sun
days events in st. Petersburg.
Day Passes Without Bloodshed.
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