The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-25
IN STRIKES CRIT.
Traffic Is Paralyzed in Half of
European Russia.
The Capital Is Cut Off From the
Outside World.
no STOP ALL WORK.
League Of leagues Takes Up
Railroad Mems Fight.
Minister Of Railroads Compelled
to Run His Own Engine.
TO STOP ALL WORK.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 25.-Over half
Of European Russia is in the grip of
the striking railroad men ana the
strike continues to spread rapidly in
ALI directions. The roads in the VoIga
region are at standstfll and today a
general strike was proclaimed on the
two remaining lines running out of st.
Petersburg. Before tomorrow the
capital is expected to be cut off from
the outside world by way of the con-
tinent- This Will also involve the sus-
pension of postal communication.
The League of Leagues has seized
the opportunity to come to support of
the railway men and has adopted
resolution i'll favor of a general strike
Of all professions. The telegraph oper-
ators are joining in the movement and
the suspension of railway traffic, it is
feared, will be followed by a complete
obliteratiOn of communication between
interior points. The situation is criti-
cal and pregnant of all sorts of dire
possibilities The fac@ries in the af-
fected districts have been forced to
shut down for lack of fuel and Moscow
especially faces not only a food but
water famine. Fortunately st. Peters
burg will have communication open
| through Finland.
The British ambassador, Sir Charles
Hafdinge, who babe farewell to En-
peror Nicholas yesterday previous to
| leaving st. Petersburg on a mission
with the proposed AngIo-Russian I'M
| derstanding was unable to start for
England this morning because no
/ trains were running. He will leave
l the capital on the first available steam
er. Telegraphic communication be-
tween St. Petersburg and Kharkof is
| broken.
The workmen of the Putiloff Kol-
joino. Alexandrovia and Nevslky works
I
The Social Democrats believe they
/ have the government at their mercy
since with railroads stopped, author
1 tiles are poWerless to transport troops.
This is all the more serious as bloody
! collisions already have been reported
at various places and a dangerous
/ Agrarian movement has again broken
out in the government of Samara.
Authorities Amazed.
The strength displayed by the So
| thortttes who were taken quite as
much by surprise at the evidence of
| their power as they were at the time
of the Gapon rebellion.
The distress in the central provinces
! is greatly increasing by the enforced
suspension of the famine relief work.
Prince Hilkoff, the minister of rail-
/ roads, whose appeals to the strikers at
! Moscow were so unavailing that he
| could not get an engine to bring him
\ to st, Petersburg but VINO with a fire.
man stocking drove his own engine, ar
irving here black and dust-grimed, is
/ not blamable for the failure of the
! government to keep its promises made
| in the spring to increase the wages of
/ the railroad men. The responsibility
/ rests on the minister of finance. Prince
| HiIkoff expects to meet the railway
| delegates here, but apparently they
/ have already burned their bridges at
meetings held last night and which
/ continued until dawn this morning. A
1 dozen of those of the most enthusiastic
character were held. The largest,
which was held in the university, was
attended by about 10000 persons, in
/ GLIDING students who are making COM
mon cause with the Workmen and
whose leaders are making speeches in
favor of a resolution of the students to
strike until they are allowed to discuss
/ political questions.
Students Join In.
The students Joined the railroad men
! in passing a resolution in favor Of the
| imm ediate convocation of a constituent
| assembly elected by direct universal
! suffrage, and determining that the laws
! governing labor be sanctioned by the
representatives and the immediate
| grant of political freedom and declar-
ing that thus only can an armed revo-
luton be averted. These resolutions
were adopted after a deputation which
called on Count White had reported
The count received the deputation as q