Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-27
STRIKE IS SPREADING
Workmen at Other Points in
Russia in Revolt.
NO MORE ENCOUNTERS
SITUATION AT ST. PETERSBURG
AND MOSCOW UNDER CONTROL.
Trepoff Charges That Jews in America
Are Responsible for Uprising
Rioters to Use Torch.
NO MORE ENCOUNTERS

While no further encounters between the
strikers and the authorities have occurred.
today's dispatches from Russian points in
dicate that the strike movement is spread
Ing.
At Mitau bodies of strikers marched to
the shops and compelled the men who We're
at work to leave.
At Warsaw a strike was begun today and
is spreading rapidly, but without disorder.
A general strike has begun at Lodz.
At Moscow and St. Petersburg the au-
thorities have the situation under control,
and the day has passed quietly. In the for
mer city some men have returned to work.
Advices from st. Petersburg are to the
effect that the authorities regard the dan
ger of general tie-up of Russian indus
tries as past, and assert that the attempt
to convert the movement into a political
revolt has failed.
ST PETERSBURG, January 81, II a.m.--
All was quite during the night. Traffic
in the streets this morning is practically
normal. Here and there small groups Of
workmen are reading Governor General
our papers were
published this morning. Their offices were
guarded by police patrols all night long.
Most of the compositors will resume work
today. The troops have disappeared from
the streets. The press. administration has
sent a circular to the newspapers pro-
hibiting the publication of news Or COM
ment regarding the strike.
Early reports from all over Russia ndi-
cate that the strike situation is flatten-
ing out. The authorities regard the dan
of n general tenn Of Russian iOinS-
tries as practically over and declare that
the attempt to turn the movement into
a general political revolt has failed. The
governments promise of shorter hours of
labor has been proclaimed in Moscow and
other cities and seems to have had effect
upon the workmen.
Political Side Waning.
The political side of the movement is
again sinking beneath the surface. When
and in what form it will again break out
only the future can determine.
The authorities everywhere seemingly are
attempting to treat the workmen whose as
piradons are purely economic without
harshness and are appealing to their pa
triotism by pointing out the benefit which
will accrue to the Japanese by suspension
of work at the arsenals, dockyards, etc. On
the other hand the authorities are putting
down the revolutionists with stern hand.
The latter have again been forced to COW
foreign correspondents are fiocking in to
find that the acute stage Is past and some
of them have been driven to repeating the
horror stories of Sunday, while others are
indulging in the widest inventions, particu-
larly about the intrigues and terrors pre-
yailing at court.
Imperial Family Fled.
The latest sensational report Is that the
emperor and the imperial family have fed
to Livadia.
Only two Russian newspapers out of the
four here appeared this morning. Their ac-
counts of the Sunday tragedy are colorless
and in their editorials are only able with
great cireumlOcutlon to indicate the feeling
of popular Indignation
The morgue still contains many unidenti-
Ned dead The hands of some of the vic
tins are white and on their fingers are dia-
mond rings, the supposition being that they
were liberals Of gentle birth in sympathy
with the strike movement who dressed up
as workmcn and took part in the demon
Strat!ons.