The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-11-18
St. Petersburg Workmen Are
Growing Bolder.
SITUATION NOW MENAClNG
More Organizations Join General Tie-up
Strikers Make Defiant Reply to
Count Whites Appeal--Agrar-
ian Disorders Unchecked.

st. Petersburg, Nov. IS. The outlook
for on early collapse Of the strike Is
more gloomy. Indeed, the situation is
distinctly more menacing.
The council OF workmen's delegates,
or strike committee, is manifestly en-
couraged by the extension of the strike
in st. Petersburg, various organizations,
including the bank clerks, telephone
girls, and some of the professional
leagues. Moreover, it is certain that the
worxmen's council has received myster-
ious supplies of funds. Consequently
they present a holder front.
Practically all the pretexts based on
economic demands have been abandoned,
although the eight-hor day figures In
/ the oratory at meetings in order TO
hold the workmen, who have no thought
except improvement in their material
condition
Scornful Reply to Witte.
The workmens council has returned
scornfuI reply to Count Whites per-
sonal appeal to his brother workmen,s
ridic,iling the governments profession
of solicitude for the workmen and renew
! ing their demands for the immediate
abolition Of martial law in Poland, etc
The text of the reply is IS follows:
THE council Of workmen's delegates
expresses establishment at the emperor's
fayorite. who permits himself to call
| the workmen of st. Petersburg his breth-
rem The proletariat Is not related to
him in any way.
| Count Witte appeals to us to be
compassionate Of our wives and chill
dren. The council in reply invites the
worhmen to count the widows and or
phans who have been added to the ranks
Of the workmen since the day Count
Witte assumed power.
Count Nitte reveals the benevolent
/ intentions Of the emperor toward the
working classes. The council reminds
the proletariat OF Bloody Sunday.
Count Witte begs us to give the gov
eminent time, and promises 70 do all
possible for the workmen. The council
knows Count White has already found
/ time to give Poland into the hands OF
the military executioners. The council
does not doubt Count White will do all
possible to strangle the revolutionary
proletariat.
/ scount Nitsa Sails himself man who
| il benevolent toward us and wishes our
good The council declares the working
| classes have no need Of the benevolenee
Of d court fayorite, but demand popular
/ government, on the basis Of universal,
direct and secret suffrage
aAlI or Nothing
Count Whites attempt to negotiate
| directly with the strike leaders has come
to naught, although he offered conees-
si0ns in the case OF the Kronstadt mu-
tineers iii the event Of their being CON
demned to death. But the leaders re-
1 fused to compromise. All or nothing,
was their response.
/ Although the imperial ukase on the
land question: issued yesterday, wipes
out about 100000 of the peasants
arrearages Of debt, and might, under or
binary circumstances, have been received
with joy, it has proved another disap-
pointment. The promises of additional
lands are too vague to calm the agitat-
ed, starving peasants, who, in the val
leys of the Don and the Nolga, are again
marching, pillaging, burning and MUIR
| dering. No confirmation has been OBJ.
tanned OF Thursdays report Of a false
emperor leading the peasants oil penza.
The mill aud factory owners at q
meeting Just held, while Offering to make
some concessions in the matter of hours
of labor, generally to ten hours, took
a final decision that unless the men re-
sumed work Monday they must close
down indefinitely Should the men be
locked ont IN the face Of winter, it would
only make the situation more desper-
ate.
The news from the provinces shows
that practically no movement has been
started there in support Of the general
strike, but there Is deep suspicion
that this may simply be the lnll Of
preparation.
Keeping Their Plans Dark