The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-26
STRIKE ALL
OVER RUSSIA
Every Railway in the Empire
Affected.
THE CAPITAL ISOLATED.
Prices Of Food Supplies in Moscow Are
Soaring-Factory workmen Go Out
All Communication by Rail
Is Virtually Suspended.


into effect yesterday ON all the railroads
running out of st. Petersburg, and all
rail communication between the capital
and other points is suspended. Sir
Charles Hardinge, the British Ambassa-
dor, who was to have started for London
yesterday morning on business supposed
to be connected with the projected Anglo
Russian understanding, was unable to
get out of st. Petersburg because there
were no trains running. He will be
Obliged to depart by steamboat.
Strike Throughout Russia.
The employees of all the Russian rail
| ways are now on strike. No trains are
running into or out of st. Petersburg.
Mounted troops are patrolling the streets
Iof the capital
Matters were complicated yesterday
| by strike of the workmen in the Putil-
| off iron works, the Kolpino works, the
Alexandrovski cotton mills and the
Neyski shipyards. The situation is be-
coming worse.
meeting of railway men held at the
university Tuesday night took on the
revolutionary character. After discuss
ling the agitation for constituent as
sembly the delegates sent deputations
| to Count Witte and to Prince KhilKoff,
/ the Minister Of Railway Communication.
Prince khilkoif was absent when the de-
putation called Count Witte consent
ed to receive the railway men as a PR
yate individual He told them that a
constituent assembly would be impossible
at present. University suffrage, he said,
would give preeminence to wealthy men.
who would be able to influence voters.
He promised that liberty of press and
|of assembly would be granted, and that
martial law on the railways would be
abolished.
Threat of Famine in Moscow.
4 dispatch from Moscow saws that no
milk can be obtained there and that the
prices of meat and butter have become
exorbitant since railway traffic was sus-
pended.
Trains full Of soldiers returning from
the East We're stopped near Moscow by
the strike. They contain 500 wounded
men, who are in a sad condition for want
Of proper food and attendance
Violent revolutionary meetings, III
which persons Of all classes take part.
are held daily in Moscow, and the police
do not interfere with them.
Strike Reaches Warsaw.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, Oct. 26.
The employees of the Vienna Railway
have joined tile strike. The last train
left Warsaw at $50 o'clock yesterday al
ternoon.
London, oct. %. The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Telegraph draws
sensational picture Of the strike situa-
ton. He says, among other things, that
meetings are being held everywhere in
the provinces, and that speeches are be-
ing made by anybody and everybody. |
Demands are beng formulated which the
government would not grant If it coull, |
and could not if it would
Resolutions are being passed unani. !
mously and enthusiastically to continue
the strike until these demands are con-
eeded. Downright frenzy, revolutionary |
frenzy seems to have seized the entire |
people. who rush headlong as though |
literally possessed and resolved to bring |
ruin on themselves, or else end the obi |
Gus regime which is dying too slowly
There are no peoples tribunals at work |
as in revolutionary France, but there
are executions enough, which are carried /
out in ways that point to local vehm
gerichts. Every morning paper brings
lists of officials, police, Cossaeks, admin
istrators and even wstchmen, whose lives
have been suddenly snutied out during
the night by men who are unknown.
Bombs, daggers, revolyers and rifles
figure in the lugubrious accounts, to
which the public is rapidly growing accus-
toned Revolutionary lynch law has thus
the place of official caprice,
which until some months ago freely dis
posed OF the property, the liberties and
the lives Of peaceful citizens,
who were often more deserving of re-
yard than punishment.
The fact Ii the Social Democrats and
Social Revolutionists who are the best
organized parties in the country, having
natnred new plans, are now carrying
hem out deliberately and successfully. |
they first got power over the universities
md high schools, which are used as
llaces OF meeting for all malcontents
without exception, just as the Jacobins'
sonvent was employed by the French pa
riots.
On Sunday night hundreds of students
{ the Women's University at Moscow
Ield meeting to decide whether to
trike or to allow the establishment TO
ontinue work. After long debate it
vas resolved by small majority to per- /.
ait the university to remain open, but
My as center of the revolutionary /.
novement, where public meetings might
e held and lectures delivered.
From all parts of the interior come re-
orts Of public meetings assembling spon- !,
aneously in the streets and other public !
laces, and approving the strike. Those 5
tending conduct themselves with de- Z
rec OF self.control that is uncommon 4
! Russia. il
Referring to the holding up Of the 3
of food, the correspondent Il
eseribes the scarcity of meat in Moscow Il
nd st. Petersburg. He says it requires q
welve trains daily to convey the cattle 3
aughfered for food in st. Petersburg. a
Il these trains come from the south q
trough Moscow, but since Sunday not
ne has arrived. Meat prices have al
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