Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-03

STRIKES Are INCREASING
OF POLITICAL PLANS
Look for a Peasant outbresk
Spring When Workmen wsa 81.
Monster Movement Aaalnst N. /.
ernment-Policemen Are k.ps
Going on Strike BY Soldier al.

StS y" ~ ~ SoluleF E4s
st. Petersburg, March 1.-Evls.
is increasing that tne strikes tb,s
out the empire. and especiallv thos.
st. Petersburg, are not econome
their origin, but inspired by ! dss.
political plan. The government
employers are embarrassed bv ri.
tics of the workmen, whose eisoo,,.
is being fed and who are inoysss
their demands with eachtneW eas.
sion.
This condition is believed Il A,
been fomented by crafty political
tators, who are stirring I'D the
and at the same time holding then
leash, apparently awaiting soma
nal for concerted action. Fear 4
tertained that this widespread n,
ton may be connected with 4 pias
await a possible peasant outbresI
the spring, with which general M
will be synchronized, the worm
joining hands with the peasants
The situation in Riga Is AGAIN
ported to be very serious. The
thorities there apparently are ubs
to cope with the lawless element
Civil War in Caucasus.
In the Caucasus the situation a
tremely bad, practically amountlns
civil war. In Baku the inhabitanis
ricaded in their houses, are petition
the central authorities at ST. pets
burg for relief from the existing cor
lions of affairs. The government
sending achievements Of troops n
while these may be able to stop h
reign of terror, they will be impols
to start the wheels Of industry 81
prietors fear that the oil wells win /
ruined if pumping is suspended mul
longer. Conditions in other towns
the Caucasus are equally desperate
Owing to the gravity Of the SID
ton in the Caucasus and appreha
sion based on depletion Of the distHl
troops for the war, the goveTnma
has appealed to the Armenian Cali
lies to exert their personal infusnl
to persuade Armenians to cease ths
agitation. The catholics went
Avarian, where he exhorted people
remain tranquil.
Stop the War, Is the Demand,
Strikes have broken out at q
Lugansk coal mine and on the siberl
railway at Chita. The strikers ath
latter place demand that the war
stopped.
Dispatches from Batoum report Oh
domiciliary searches for arms ha
been instituted in the quarters Of d
workingmen.
In Siberia as well as In other pat
of the empire the government 3
granted considerable concessions
railway employees, in some cases
cording them a reduction of the hon
of labor to nine a day. This rends
the situation of private employers
creasingly difficult, as they claim e
it is impossible for them to concede
much.
More Strike Talk at Moscow
Postal Telegraph officials at Nose
are threatening to strike unless th
demands -improvement Of their d
ditions-are granted.
Warsaw Situation Worse.
Every policeman on duty at Wars
is accompanied by soldier. The
thorities, fearing a strike by the
lice, ordered this precaution, 50 z
in the event of an officer leaving
post it will not be unprotected,
measure is further intended to gu
policemen from possible attack
strikers.
The police demand $3.50 per mon
Inc same scale That is PAID ~
Petersburg. The present pay here
IS per month.
The private coachmen and liV
stable men here struck today
strike of street railway employees g
tinues.
Some $4,000 strikers from the
iron mills will return to work, all g
demands having been granted. az
include a nine hour day instead
10 IL hours. and an increase in wa
of from 5 to % per cent.
ParoIed Officers at New York.
Thirteen officers of the Russ