The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-11-17
'WITTE.'
False Emperor Has Appeared.

When the above appeal was read to
the workmen at the Westinghouse works,
the leaders replied:
"Witte promises ms soft bed, but
in the meantime we must sleep on a
hard one"
| Like the w0rkmen OF other factories.
/ the manager that the strike would pro-
coed until Saturday, when 1t would be
decided whether to continue ii on call
| il off.
| A false emperor has suddenly made
his appearance near Penza, and already
his followers number $4,000. This il
the startling report received this after
noon in despatch from Simbirsk.
| Penza is in the heart Of the vast re-
gion extending westward from the Vol
ga, where the agrarian uprisings on a
large scale have been occurring, and
| if the report turns out to be true, that
the pretender to the throne has placed
himself at the head of the peasantry,
| the government will soon face, besides
its other troubles, formidable argra-
rian rebellion.
1t required year to suppress the IA
nous rebellion led by Pngateheif, who
impersonated and murdered Peter III
in the time OF Catharine IT.
That uprising was started in the same
region, on the banks OF the Volga.
| A panic prevailed on the Bourse, yes
terday, as the result Of rumor that
| the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch
commander Of the imperial guard, had
been appointed the military dictator.
There was q stampede Of holders Of
| industrial stocks who hastened to un-
load Government lotteries fell 25 points
to 400, and imperial As dropped to 1915,
| a lower point than touched at any time
| during the war,
Mr.. Vouich, chief of Premier Whites
chancelery, authorized the press to deny
positively the rumor that a dictator
had been appointed He also declared
that it had not been decided to declare
martial law in st. Petersburg.
If. Nouich added:
Happily, matters have not reached
! such desperate stage. For the mo-
ment, the government il waiting to see
what will be the popular response to
the appeal for general striking, insti-
gated by the Social Democrats. Since
the former general strike the emperors
reform manifesto has been issued and
the government must understand clearly
how far the people and public opinion
support movement before reaching a
decision as to the course to pursue
Outlook Is Less ominous
| The outlook is less threatening to-
| day, but the general strike promises To
collapse in few days. The appeals
made to the country to Join in the
movement met with no response, and
the dissensions in the workmcn's council
lis increasing
| It is now apparent that extremists
took the decision TO order general po
litieal strike without due preparation
In the belief that the whole country
would rise at their bidding and continue
the revolutionary movement,
Having once demonstrated the power
of a general strike as a weapon with
which to terrorize. the government, the
leaders believed they could invoke It al
| a moments notice, but popular sympa'
thy failed to respond, and the leaders
reluctantly admit that they cannot
force last ditch fight, but must con
tent themselves with calling The present
strike demonstration.
/ While the organized workmen Of St
Petersburg obeyed the order to strike
many did 30 grumblingly.
In the face Of the winter and neces'
sity OF providing for their families
many of them did not want to stoE
work.
At the Russo American rubber works
yesterday morning, anti-strikers beai
off and drove away strike deputa.
ton which came to order the workmer
out.