The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-11-23
VICTORY FOR
CONSERVATIVES
RUSSIAN LIBERALS MEET An
OTHER DEFEAT IN STRIKE
MOVEMENT.
EIGHT.HOUR PLAN KILLED
ATTEMPT TO TACK SHORT
- 49, ~ @a1ea ~AIllM
ATTEMPT TO TACK SHORT
Err DAY TO ORDER CALLING
OFF STRIKE.
OPENS EYES OF THE PUBLIC
REALIZE THAT FIRST DUTY OF
HOUR Is TO STAND BY THE
GOVERNMENT.

st. petersburg, Nov. 21.-After the
severe reverse which they suffered
early yesterday morning when, at the
end Of a seven-hour debate, the coun-
Gil of workmen decided to abandon
the industrial strike, the leaders of the
extremist socialist factions Of the st.
Petersburg workmen yesterday en-
gagged in a hard and unsuccessful fight
in defense of a resolution for an eight
hour day, which was the slogan Of
last weeks strike, but which was
abandoned at the last moment in ia
vor of an appeal for the lives of the
mutineers at Cronstadt and the lib
erty of Poland.
, When the council convened last
night a socialist representative intro
duced an amendmen to the resolution
Calling OF the Strike,
providing that the men in returning to
work should hereafter labor only
eight hours, laying down their tools at
4 o'clock in the afternoon instead of 6
o'clock, while insisting on the same
rate of pay. Encouraged by their
earlier victory the conservative lead
ers at once opened a vigorous opposi-
ton to the resolution, and at 2:55
o'clock this morning they carried a
resolution against any attempt to in
troduce a movement for an eight-hour
day.
Very Little Violence.
, Apprehensions that the defeat of
the reds" in the council might in
spire them to take violent measures
against the troops or the merchants
who refused to close their places of
business Saturday when ordered by
the leaders, were happily without
foundation, though rumors of coils
ions between workmen and troops in
the Vassili Ostrov and the Putiloff
districts were in circulation.
The high sounding proclamation
with which the council of workmen
announced the end of the strike, de-
claring hat the demonstration had
served it's purpose by saving the lives
of the mutineers at Crostadt, while,
of course, it is principally a
Blind Cover of Defeat,
as the trials of the mutineers are still
in progress, is at the same time
shrewd tactics for use in the propa-
ganda which the council is actively
pushing among the army and navy.
Such claim, however, cannot disguise
the fact that the strike was inaugur-
ated to compel the government not
only to pardon, Internationally the
mutineers, but to abolish MARTA. law
in Poland and to compel the calling of
a constituent assembly, none of which
objects have been achieved. The re-
fusal of the allied organizations in the
interior to respond to the call and the
revolt Of many of the better classes OF
workmen here against the dictation of
political agitators and walking dele
gates by no means represents the full
measure of the real defeat Of the
strike movement.
Alienates Public Sympathy.
The strike, by alternating public SYM
pathy and opening the eyes of the in
telligent Liberals and Moderates to
the facts that the first duty of the
hour was to stand by the government
in its efforts to ~tranquilize the coun-
try and to make head against the tide
of socialism and revolution which was
threatening Russia with anarchy, aid
ed greatly in the formation of the new
"Law and Order party which has
now spdung into formidable being.
Interest has now shifted to Moscow,
where the Zemstvo congress opened
yesterday. The members of the new
party from all parts of the country
nave gone there to make a fight in the
congress for a union of all conserva.
tive and liberal elements to
Hold Up the Hands of Witte,
to condemn the political strike, and to
seek further political salvation
through the doors opened by the mani
festo, though it Is neither expected
nor desired that the constitutional
democrats will abjure their program
while joining in the movement to aid
in the restoration of tranquility. 1t is
expected that a sharp combat will de-
velop with the large fraction of the
zemstvoists who are arrayed with the
socialists to continue the fight
against the government to the bitter
end. The result Of the congress is
awaited with the deepest interest.
The failure of the strike has shown
the country as a whole how little SYM
pathy there is with Poland in her de-
mand for complete autonomy.