New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
RUSSIAN STRIKES OFF.
END TO-MORROW At NOON.
Long Argument Before W0rkmen s
Council 4greed to Resume.

81 Petersburg. Nov 10 C8:35 a m).-The work
mems council, at o'clock this morning, decided
% esn OF The industrial strike on Monday at
noon.
They claimed that a great victory had been
achieved, and that the lives OF 1000 Cronstadt
mutineer5 hnYe been saved
Thr railroad strike also was formally declared
of beginning At noon Monday
The advocates Of d continuance of the indus
trlu sTrke, especially the leaders of the Elk
trsnist faction, declared that no relations with
ne government, except war TO the knife,
pssrlBIe ard urged that the strike be enforced
until The Cronstadt mutineers were uncond1-
hSaai1y pardoned and martial law in Poland
abolished. The intransigeants insisted that the
isaa~triss proletariat of the whole country was
ready to hare out in a resumption Of the former
general strike if the ST. Petersburg workmen
would stand to their guns only few days
lonser. They declared that the strike commit
zee In Moscow was tonight debating the ques-
ton Of Joining the call for universal strike, and
produced q telegram from Rybinsk. saying that
the workmen in the shops of the motor power
department. Of the railroad had struck to-day
ard that traffic was at a standStiIi
The orators ef the other faction resented
rhaFply The iRsinuatIons Of trAachery and Rol-
rosaeFY, and warned their opponents that they
ran the danger Of being deserted and entirely
discredited If they persisted in ordering a con-
'inuanee of the strike. The division OF senti-
ment is acute among the leaders of the large
body OF worianen who oppose the strike, and
who hitherto have been held in line through
loyalty and the men will probably return to
work on Monday
The railroad strike committee covered the
abandonment of its position in the following
grandiloquent proclamation:
The strike of the St. Petersburg railroad work
lien has shown the government that the execu-
uoh OF cruel measures like the death penalty
Will always meet the active resistance OF the
working classes. The strike has shown that
ouf power is growing and if later the commit
- nnds It necessary to offer the government
decisive battle will conquer.
comrades, grid yourselves for the struggle
> hen II is found necessary all the railroads in
sussia viii strike Immediately, and will con-
niue the struggle until the government fulfls
al our political and economic demands.
manifesto has been issued by the worlnens
council declaring that the government was COM
PEELED to yield to the workmen's demands with
regard to the Cronstadt mutineers IT invites
me working classes of all Russia to sustain the
protest Of the St. Petersburg proletariat against
martial Law, capital punishment and ursris-
nss Of the Black Hundred" 1T says:
me council of workmen calls upon sensible
Nersren TO spread the revolutionary propa-
s1 saiea II the ranks of the army and navy and TO
@ aAs up military organization with the working
.ssses ses IN order when armed, organized and
.Ys..oineo- TO offer battle TO the effete and tot
Stfang government
Delegates present from the peasants union Of
Aharion declared that the authorities had COM
'ssd With the demand for the removal of Cos
sssss in five districts in their hands and that
'asy we're ready to join the workingmen when
Universal psn-Russian political strike vas de-
Cared. The delegates said the peasants had
SonHd themselves during the strike to drink no
vodka. 10 work for no land owners. to visit no
cites, and to sell no produce except to strikers
snd that they also had pledged themselves to
sroid violence 10 property or persons
AEfV p4RTY FORlEING.