The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-10-25
INDUSTRIAL CRISIS
RUSSIA FACES ANOTHER SERIOUS
TROUBLE. !.
Strike on Railroads Spreads TO Al
Parts OF the cmplre-lnhabit.
snts OF r1oscow Alresdy eace
rsmlne-On One Line Running
to Frontier.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 24.--The rail-
road strike situation has now entered
on highly serious phase. The move.
ment 10 spreading rapidly to all the
railroads Of the empire, and apparently
cannot be stopped. while in many cities
1t 10 communicating itself to the mill
and factory employees. The general
strike In all branches Of labor. which
the Socialists planned for the end of
this year, 10 suddenly bursting forth Of
it, own volition.
Minister of Finance KokvosoR yea
terdsy received telegram from the
governing committee of the Moscow
house, which said that = continuation
Of the strike for week longer would
force every factory in the Moscow re-
gion to shut down owing to lack Of
GOAL, whether or not the factory hands
took part in the strike.
The same condition of paralysis
threatens all the trades and industries
Of Russia, unless the strike 10 speedily
settled.
MOSCOW Races Famine.
The inha bitants Of Moscow are al
ready feeling the effects Of the strike
in the increased prices Of food, and
they are even confronted oy famine.
As the demands Of the men are pure.
~ political it seems impossible to sat.
isfy them by economic concessions.
Prince Hilkcff, minister Ct railroads,
yesterday, in receiving the members Of
the deputation sent by the strikers,
talked with them Familiarity He said
that while in England and the United
States he worked sixteen hours daily,
in order to increase his salary, and
pointed out the superiority Of the pro.
duction Of foreign workmen in guam.
titv and quality at the same wages re.
ceived by the Russian workmen.
The deputation entered a protest
against any man being compelled to
work sixteen hours day, because suoh
long hours precluded any opportunity
for educational improvement. Prince
Hilkoff in reply said that even with six
teen hours day it was possible to de.
vote at least one hour to reading and
to other forms of impro cement.
Deadlock Apparent.
The situation is apparently a dead.
lock, from which egress can only be
had by the surrender CT one side OF
perhaps the proclamation of martial
law ON the railroads.
A flood Of dispatches yesterday from
Simbirsk. Saratoff, Wanna. Poltava,
Smolensk, Kieff, Mimi Novgorod,
Elizabethgsrd. Kazan. and other rail.
road centers all over Russia, announced
the complete tying up Of all transpor'
tation.
The last link that bound Moscow,
the commercial center Of the empire,
with the outer world was broken yes.
terday afternoon when the men Of the
Nicholai road, connecting Moscow
with st. Petersburg. went on strike,
The engineers shut off steam in their
enignes. and Prince HilkoR had great
difficulty in obtaining crew for the
special train.whioh brought him to St.
Petersburg at midnight.
Only One Line 10 Frontier.
st. Petersburg has one line to the
frontier, and the employees of this line
held meeting late last night to de.
eide whether or not they should partic.
ipate in the movement.
Brigadier General Thomas H. Barry
and Capt. Sidney A. Cloman. of the
United States, who have been with
the Russian army in Manchuris, left
last night for Vienna on what was per.
haps the last train out Of St. Peters.
burg. Railroad trains are now run.
ming only in the border regions Of the
epmire.
Pathetic scenes are reported from
Moscow, where thousands of the poor
or inhabitants Of the adjoining prov
inces have been waiting for four days
for trains to take them home. They
are camping out near the railroad sta
lions and in the streets, and many of
them are without money or the neces-
saries of life.