Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-20
Will Now Devote Energies for
Universal Strike.
TO SUSTAIN APROGRAM
FOR FURTHERING REVOLUTION
AIRY SCHEME IN RUSSIA.
Suddenly Upset by Precipitation Of
Railway Trouble in st. Peters,
burg and Elsewhere.

ST. PETERSBURG. November 21.-WIth
| the collapse of the strike the leaders OF the
reds say they VIII now devote their ener-
gies to the preparation of a universal polti-
cal strike to sustain the revolutionary pro-
/! gram when the national assembly meets
These plans which were suddenly upset by
the precipitation OF the railroad strike last
month, are exceedingly ambitious. involving
the cooperation not only OF the worSmen OF
the cities but the peasantry. and IL pos
sible. the army and navy. The propaganda
aiming the soldiers and sailors will be
pushed energeiically. The leaders already
claim that they have organized the peasan-
try in five districts OF KharkoT province.
the peasants having agreed not TO work for
tie landlords when the strike is called.
They anticipate that the famine which is
at the doors OF almost 15.C2oGc) peasants
of the central provinces. according to esti-
mates, will prove an effective ally of the
agitation. as they can promise to give the
peasants land to unlimited extent.
The plague which is moving nortbward
from the Kirghiz steppe. II not stamped out
in the Vistula region, may also be made TO
serve the purpose of arousing the ignorant
and superstitlous peasants. The leaders will
urge the proletariat everywhere to secure
arms and be prepared to fight for their
rights.
The Struggle at Moscow.
The struggle in progress In the Moscow
zemstvo congress is watched with intense
interest. The main question to be decided
is whether the zemstvoists will cooperate
with the government and on what terms.
The test probably will come upon the
resolutions 10 be offered by NJ. Nemiro-
vesky, mayor of Saratoff and NJ. Kuche-
of bar Of
operation with Count Witte In the general
pacifcation of the country and the intro
duction OF the reforms, with the under
standing that the national assembly Will
work out the details. p.
The men who are making a fight on the
necessity for supporting Count Witte urge
that unless the country is tranquilHzed
the government win be forced to return TO
reactionary measures.
From the dispatches received. however.
it is likely that even IL the radical wing
is outvoted certain guarantees will be de-
manded as the price OF the cooperation
of the zemstvoists.
1t is significant that a delegate to the
zemstvo. who presented himself as the
representative of the Jewish population OF
Wilma, Lithuania, was excluded.
A Split is Predicted.
Many liberals here believe that the con-
gress is sure to result in a split and that
the radical wing standing on its insistence
upon constituent assembly and universal
suffrage, will refuse all connection with
the government. The plan loudly dis
cussed by the extremists fortnight ago OF
turning the congress into a constituent as
sembly appears TO have fallen through.
While no further information has been
received regarding the reported false en-
peror who was said to be marching at
the head of thousands of peasants In the
province of Penza, the turbulence there has
become so threatening that the government
has placed the province in q. state Of Siege.
Dmitri Shipom and NJ. Guchkoff who are
attending the Moscow congress, viii, Il is
understood, act as Intermediates in be-
half of Count Witte. They have in their
possession propositions on which the gov
ernment will ask for the cooperation OF
the zemstvosts. The principal point is ey-
tension and definition of the powers of the
national assembly promised in the imper-
ial manifesto of october 80. 1t Is expected
that the fight over the question OF support
ing the government will be settled at to-
nights session Of the congress.