Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-21
POLAND THE STORM CENTER.
Grave Disturbances AGitating kosci-
usIko's Conquered La,.d.

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| The storm center of the political and
industrial agitation which for weeks has
centered the attention of the world upon
the empire of the Gar is now in Po-
| land, where the disaffection of the peo-
| pie furnishes a ready soil for revolution
arg propagandism. At Lodz which is
an important industrial center, collisions
| between the soldiers and strikers have
been numerous, and in the aggregate Il
large number of people have been shot
! and sabered. 1t was political rather than
industrial agitators who precipitated the
crisis in LODI. These had gone to the
city from other parts of Russia and IN
stigated the strikers TO make demands,
which, on the face of it, could not be
granted. The strikers demanded an in
crease of pay from kopeks an hour to
20, and a decrease of the working hours
from liz to s. When these demands
were not granted, as the political agi-
tators knew full well was impossible, the
strikers were easily led to acts of vio-
lence, with the result of much blood
shed.
Another Polish center which is af-
fected is Sosnovice, in the coal region
bordering the German frontier. There
the strikers are supplied with dynamite.
which is freely used and the community
is terrorized. Germans employed in the
industries there have hocked across the
frontier. The strong arm of Russian
militarism is now exerting itself, but in
the excited public condition there is grave
danger that bloody scenes will be en-
acted.
In Warsaw the situation is still crit
ical. Several persons who were in favor
of returning to work We're killed by strik-
ers. Owing to the closing of bakeries
provisions are mounting to famine prices
and the country people are afraid to
enter the city with supplies
The telegraph reports from Warsaw
say things have quieted down and bust
ness has assumed the regular routine.
After killing and manning hundreds of
men and women who took part in
movement to replace tyranny with free
dom the brutal Russian soldiery have
cowed the populace into submission.
BY what tremendous odds this triumph
was won! Warsaw was overrun with
soldiers until they outnumbered the male
adult population of the city. One hun
bred thousand of them were quartered in
the town, or 10000 more than the mas
culine civilians capable of bearing arms.
What show had unarmed men and wom-
en- against such a host? What a great
achievement indeed it was to put down
an instruction where sticks and stones
we're the weapons of attack and defense
against the repeating rifles and up-to-
late cannonry of trained battalions!
1t required 100000 soldiers to dispense
the crowds in st. Petersburg pleading
with the Gar for laws to prevent the
anslaving of the wage Garner. Warsaw
is only one-third the size of St Peters
burg, yet it needed just as many troops
as the latter city to keep in subsection
the gallant Poles. The partition of Po-
land. one of the most infamous of acts,
is neither forgotten nor forgiven by the
race which it has meant to exterminate.
No wonder its chief city is filled with
troops to crush any revolt, even the most
trivial.
Warsaw is quiet, forsooth, because for
a patriot to show his head out of doors
now is to invite a volley of bullets and
death. SO Warsaw will remain until
her people are beaten into submission.