The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-16
elTUATiON At ST. PETERSBURG
AGAIN ASSUMES A CRIT.
/ CAL ASPECT.
GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE
TRAFFIC DELAYED, FACTORIES
CLOSED AND MoBs PARADE
THE STREETS.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 16.-The order
for general strike Of wOrkmen
throughout Russia was wonderfully
successful in ST. Petersburg, almost
100000 men walking out In obedience
to the mandate of the strike commit
tee. Many of the railroad employees
have gone out and trafic is again par
TALLY tied up. The Northern express
bound for Paris remains standing In
the station.
The factories In the industrial dis.
tricts beyond the Narva and Moscow
gates have shut down and the Nevsky,
admiralty and Baltic yards, the big
tube works and all the cotton and
wooden mills on both sides of the Neva
nosed at noon and soon thousands OF
workmen were parading In the indus
trial districts. carrying red flags and
forcing those who we're reluctant to
strike to join them. The compositors
are said to have decided to join the
general strike and it Is expected that
all the newspapers will again have to
suspend publication.
The strike commenced promptly on
the Baltic and Warsaw railways and
It Is announced that all the other lines
will follow suit.
Strikers and Anti-strikers Fight.
At the Sangalli works there was a
light between strikers and anti-strikers
during which four men were killed and
ten were wounded with knives.
The electric lights are shut off and
the city Is again In darkness. The car
drivers and cab men have also been
asked to Join In the strike.
The suddenness and magnitude of
the movement has terrorized the In
habitants and has caught the govern
ment unprepared as usual.
The streets are already full of Co.'S
sacks, cavalry and infantry, but the
authorities, In the face of such
gigantic revolutionary demonstration,
seem to be hesitating over what course
to pursue. Inasmuch as thousands
OF arms were bought and distributed
during the last few days under cover
of providing for defense against the
"Black Hundred the danger of blood
shed on q large scale, should the
troops fire, Is greatly increased. The
revolutionary leaders boldly boast that
the people are Owebetter prepared and
better armed for q conflict. Moreover
they assert confidentially that they
know positively that the soldiers OF
several of the guard regiments will
refuse to fire upon the people.
Would Establish Republic.
A large meeting OF workmen Is be-
ing held at which the most incendiary
speeches are being made and resolu-
tions adopted. rhe following are sam
pies:
I'VE do not believe In the partial
constitutionalism Of Count Witte or In
the lying representations Of the Lib
eral bourgeoisie. We see only thou
sands OF corpses and thousands OF
wounded and beaten persons and the
seas of blood that have flowed. We
will continue the struggle for the
amelioration OF our position. the imme-
diate apportionment of the land to the
tillers OF the soil, the liberation OF
every political prisoner and the estab-
ltshment of a democratic republic.
I'VE appeal TO our brothers the
peasants to aid In the struggle. Our
watchword is:
Bread to the wOrkmen: land to the
peasants: liberty to the people; down
with absOlutism.
1--WE express sympathy with our
comrades ut Cronstadt. Il the gov
eTnment dares to execute them the
S.s..c..c-;cs ~i,i rise and the blood OF