The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
Appear to Be Doing for thu
Revolutionary Movement
What the Russian Government
Has Failed to Accomplish.
STRIKE is DOOMED.
Employees of theState Are Theat-
ened With Discharge
If They Quit the Service of the
Empire.

St. Petersburg. Nov. 18.-The sud
den awakening of the conservative and
liberal elements to the imperative ne
cessity for resisting to the utmost the
attempt of the radicals and socialists
who sre conducting the present strike
to obtain the upper hand has galvan-
lied the leaders into action and has
started a healthy movement in favor OF
entirely cutting loose from the radical
wing.
Dimitri shipoH and Guskom and 9TH
er leaders of various groups including
the constitutional demands have gone
to Moscow to urge the zemstvOists as
sembling there to unite the forces which
desire to prevent anarchy in con-
demning the political strike and to
join in supporting the government in
Its efforts to restore tranquility and in
troduce the new regime. The govern
meut is able to take a frmer stand be-
cause Of this reaction in public op1n-
ion. Count Witte believed that such
a reaction must come but he wisely
waited until public sentiment showed
q disposition to support the govern
IN lent before initiating energetic mea-
sures. By his direction the project Of
police, General Dedulin, issued a proc
lamauOn 1nStrucung the UradeSmeu not
to yield to the threats Of the agitators
and walking delegates who ordered
them to close their shops and promis-
ing the tradesmen police and military
protection.
A government note was simultaneous
" issued prohibiting government en-
ployes from participating in Organiza-
tiOns actively opposing the government
1T points out that the restriction Of pO-
litiCal activity on the part Of the gov
eminent employees is not subversive of
fnnf- Hfhar-frv fe F0
maintenance Of discipline; calls atten-
ton to the fact that in free countries
like the United States pernicious politi-
cal activity on the part of officials is
inhibited and recalls the fact that less
than q fortnight ago the French cham
Der of deputies supported Premier
E3ouvier's decision not to permit the
political organizations of state servants.
The note is directed particularly against
the attempt to organize in Moscow the
society of post and telegraph employees,
the avoWed object of which is to compel
the convocation Of a constituent assem-
bly, and whose members pledge them
selves to donate so Der cent Of their
salaries to the strike fund. The stop
ping of the posts and telegTaphs, it is
pointed out, would endanger the life Of
the state and every euplOye joining the
organization referred to viii instantly
be dismissed. The employees of the gov
ernment railroads are also threatened
with dismissal if they join the strike
The break in the ranks Of the striker:
fn Poland and the refusal of many or.
ganizations in the interior, especially
those of the railroad men at Moscow tC
strike on account Of Poland and thu
fierce dissensions which have broker
out among the Workmen's leaders at st
Petersburg seem to doom the strikl
movement to failure and temporarily a
least must inlict a defeat on the Socia
Democrats The government has taker
the occasion to officially deny that thi
measures taken in Poland were in any
way incited by Germany or that any ar
rangement exists with Germany upoI
the subject.