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AGAIN ASK TO SEE THE GEAR.
STRIKE LEADERS HAVE NO FAITH
IN PROMISED REFORMS.
Believe They should lie Allowed TO state
Their Case 10 the Emperor-Ninistcr
az Finance TO Frame Scheme for the
Improvement OF Morkmens Condition.

Special cable Dispatches 70 The sun.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. l3.-The leaders
of the strikers visited prominent Liberals
this afternoon and expressed their deter
mination to zee the Emperor, II they
were not allowed to do so, they declared
they would not resume work.
1t was pointed out by them that recently
the Emperor had instructed three separate
bodies TO examine the questions that con-
cerned the workingmen. First. by the
ukase issued Dec. Is, he had ordered the
Council of Ministers 90 inquire how the
grievances OF the workngmen could he
best met. Second. the industrial depart
ment OF the Ministry of Finance had been
instructed to investigate. Third, n mixed
commission. under the presidency Of Shid-
lovski consisting of representatives, Of the
worl1ingmen. the employers and the Gov
eminent. had been appointed 10 see what
could he done TO end the friction. All
these we're working concurrently and with
the utmost speed. But they did not have
the confidence OF the worldngmen, who
believed that the only way that renamed
was for them to state their own case to the
Emperor.
1t Is officially announced that the com
mittee appointed under the recent ukase
of the Car has decided that the super
vision Of industrial affairs shall remain
with the Ministry of Finance, The Min
lister has been instructed to frame n scheme
for the Improvement OF the condition OF
the working people including shorten
ing Of the hour Of labor, If possible.
He will also abs. the law pertaining TO
strikes and provide for furnishing medical
aid to workers.
A reformer who visited President Shid-
ovsd and asked him what his views were
OF the relations Of the employers the work
men and the Government, was told that he
had no views upon the subject until he had
seen the Emperor.
The labor situation does not improve.
The conjecturcs regarding the prob
abilities OF peace strengthen the determine
ton of the men to place difficulties in the
way Of the Government
WARSAW, Feb. 13.-Work was resumed
in some Of the breworics and tunneriss
to-day.
The police have made, in ALL 500 arrests.
OF the persons arrested as7 have been re-
leased.
As the result Of the recent Disturbances
at LODI there have been iH funerals and
eco people, wounded in collisions with the
military. are lying in the hospitals.
LoSpoN, Feb. IA despatch to the
Standard from Moscow saws that the annual
ball of the Engineering Institute was held
on Sunday night in the hall where the
Assembly OF Mobiles meets. \ preliminary
concert ended with the playing of the ma
tional anthem, whereupon the assembly
rose and drowned the orchestra with its
singing Of the Marseillaise.
Following this several revolutionary
speeches were made, which evoked wild
applause and shouts Of stop the war;"
and -Down with the autocracyl" Revolu-
tionary leaflets We're distributed in sheayes.
The police were unable to interfere be-
cause by an ancient privilege arrests cannot
be made within the precincts OF the mobiles
assembly hall.