The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-23
TRAFFIC IS PARALYzeD
srnIsxB OF RAILROAD MEN MAKE,
 MOSCOW ISOLATED.
Trsuhles Wsl1 Impe1e Movement of the Grain Crsp and cripple Work of Helleving the Prevailing
 FoAfne.

Moscow, Oct. 22.--Traf1ic on seven of the nine main trunk arteries of com mcrce radiating from Moscow was com pletely paralyzed today by the railroad strike aad the commercial heart of Rus- ] ssa has been shut off from all commu- nication with the rest of the Empire, except within the narrow section to the northwcstward. including St. Peters burg and the Baltic provinces. Though the government has ordered the railroad battalions of the army to proceed to Moscow and take the places of the strikers for the purpose of re- storing trafYic. the revolutionists, by a
 sudden and unexpected blow. have shown their ability to lay their hands on the throat of the nation's commer- cial life.
 The employees of four railroads struck today. and only the lines running over the Nicholai road to St. Petersburg and over the Windau and Rybinsk road to Riga and other Baltic ports are open. Trafic Is at stanjstill on the Kaxan line and on the line to Yaroslav and Archagel.
 The strikers today forced the em- ployes of the general ofifces and finan- cial departments of three lines, the windau and Rybinsk. the Moscow and Brest Litovsk and the Kieff and vro- nezh to quit work. The city is already feeling the effects of milk and meat famine and few days continuance of the strike will cause serious embar- rassment and even suffering to the pop ulation. The renewal of the factory strikes is not improbable.
 An important development today was the strike on the Brest Litovsk road, which runs to Smolensk. Minsk and Warsaw and carried international traffic from Moscow to Germany. Aus tria and other parts of Europe. Though the workers in the shops of this road struck yesterday. the trains continued
 to run until 5 o'clock this afternoon,
 when the engineers and firemen drew
 the fires and deserted the engines. Com
 munication with points abroad, how
 ever. is still open by way of St. Peters.
 burg and Paskoff.
 During the morning crowd of strik-
 CTS proceeded to the freight station of
 the Kursk road and let off the steam of
 eight engines. drove away the guards
 and forced the employees to cease work.
 Traffic over the road thereupon stopped.
 Later the strikers were attacked by a crowd composed-uf the rougher element
 of the population, but orderSwas finally
 restored by Cossacks. There was oth-
 erwise no special disorder.
 The strike comins~at this time is apt
 to cripple seriously the work of relief
 in the famine stricken provinces and
 also to impede the movement of this
 years grain crop as the railroads even
 under normal conditions are not able to
 keep the grain crop moving promptly.
 Official reports show that Iss, ,s24 loaded cars were awaiting removal October 30
 in various sections and that the grain and coal handling districts are daily
 increasing their accumuiations at the railroad stations.
 Great suffering is certain if the re-
 Nsy of a ,f visions cannot be forwarded into inc famine stricken districts where up to the present thu work Of relief has not been carried out successfully.