The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-02-08
ON TO THE
PALACE
Russian Socialists to Resort
to Arms.
UNDER THE RED FLAG
Violent Proclamation Calling for
the Organization Of an Army
Of Workmen.
UNDER THE RED FLAG

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. S.-Thls
morning at the capital the startling
crime in Hesingfors has withdrawn
public attention from the strike situa-
ton throughout Russia. Recent events
in Poland and the Caucasus, however,
are quite serious enough in themselves
Disorders IN the smaller industrial
towns of Poland have added more than
a score to the tale of the killed. and
troops have had to be sent to Warsaw
and kutnO, eighty-three miles west Of
Warsaw, to quell uprisings there. The
strike conditions In the Caucasus are
becoming worse. and traffic on the
Transcaucasian railway is interrupted.
The men employed IN three ST. Pc
tersburg factories threatened to walk
out, but the grievance in this instance,
which was over strike pay, was settled
at conference.
A large nail factory in the Vassili
ostroff section was burned, and reports
of incendiarism were current, but APP
pear TO have been based on presump-
ton rather than proof.
The central committee of the Rus
sian Social Democratic Workmen's par
ty has issued violent proclamation,
which has been widely circulated in
the factories of st. Petersburg, calling
on the operatives to array themselves
under the red flag of the Social Democ-
racy and prepare for an armed renewal
of the January demonstrations. The
proclamation bitterly assails church
and state and the higher classes and
concludes: "In order to gain victory we
must organize a vast workmen's army.
Then again we will start for the palace
to present our demands not without
weapons, not with ikons and not with
supplications, but with arms in our
hands, under the blood red standard Of
the Russian Social Democratic party"
Father Gopon, the leader of the work
men Of st. Petersburg In the affair of
Jan. %, is now known to be in Swift
zerland
The police have discovered at the res
idence of Municipal Councillor Kedrine,
one Of those who was arrested with
Maxim Gorky after the attempt to in
terview Minister of the Interior Sviato-
polk Mirsky the night before the COLI
sion between the soldiers and workmen
in this city and who Is still in ST. Pc
ter and st. Paul fortress, the draft of a
proclamation melting the army to re-
volt.
The manufacturers of LODI at
meeting there have decided to concede
the men workday of ten hours and an
increase in wages ranging from 5 to 10
per cent. provided they all return to
work forthwith.
The assassin of Soisalon Soininen,
procurator general of Finland, has been
identified as Karl Lonard Hohenthal,
formerly a student at the Imperial AL
exander university at Helsingfors.
Hohenthal recovered consciousness
late yesterday, but no deposition has
been taken, as he steadfastly refuses to
answer questions. His injuries are
slight the broken leg being the most
serious. He evidently was actuated by
the widespread condemnation of Sol
ninen's. failure as procurator general
to guard the ancient laws of Finland.
At Warsaw several men were killed
by strikers in bakeries and elsewhere
when attempts were made to resume
work. Many arrests have been made.