The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-11
armed RISE NOW
RUSSIAN THREAT
VIOLENT PROCLAMATION CIR
CULATED AMONG FACTORIES
OF ST. PETERSBURG.
OFFICIALS ALARMED BY
TIE ANNOUNCEMENT
Rumor That Trepoff Will Be Elevated
to the Ministry - Programme for
Bettering Conditions of Workmen
Said to Have Cars Approval.

Bettering Conditions of Workmen
Said to Have Cars Approval.
ST. Petersburg. Feb 9.-"We must or
game vast MorAmens army. Then
again We will start tor the palaces 10
present our demands, not with supplica-
uons, but with arms In our hands under
the b.ood-red standard of the Russian
social democratic party"
Such is the purpCrt of violent
proclamation circulated by the social
democratic PARTY among the factories of
st. Petersburg, calling for the operatives
TO prepare Tor an immediate armed re-
new al OF the January demonstra,ions 1t
bitterly assails the churcn, state and the
higher classes. Grave alarm is enter
tanned by the government officials as to
the results OF this incendiary announce
ment. IL will. they fear, prove the
match which will set the entire country
a1ame, following as it does upon the
heels OF the assassination Of Scisalon
Solnlnen, procurator general of Finland.
More Power for Trepoff.
1t is stated in official circles that Gov.
Trepoff will soon be made minister of
the interior. This. it is maintained,
presases a policy OF unreenting autoc-
racy Tor the car.
On the other hand, it is announced
Finance Minister kokovsoff has framed
programme for the lettering of the
condition of the Russian worllmen
which has been approved by the ear.
He recommends that the working day
be Immediately cut to nine hours and
that it be made eight as soon as possible.
He insists that the manufacturers be
compelled to give their men at least four
free days in each month. He recon-
mends that laws be passed which will
make impossible an abuse of the labor
ers' rights. Many other sweeping
! changes OF character never before
known in Russia are advised.
Reforms on Censorship.
The committee of ministers has insti-
tuted special conference to revise tho
censorship and press laws. Its member
ship consists of officials especially cog
infant of the question, members of the
imperial academy Of science, prominent
writer's, and representatives of the de-
partments.
The committee of ministers has de-
cided the following points:
l. To abolish the right of the minister
of the interior to prohibit the publica-
ton OF items in newspapers.
2. To abolish the existing order and
permit OF the transfer of newspaper
from one editor to another.
3. The minister of the interior Is only
, authorized to prevent street sales of
newspapers.
a. To request the emperor to order
that before book is suppressed by the
minister of the interior copies thereof
shall be sent to scientific institutions.
5. 10 grant the minister of the in
terror the right to revise censorship
regulations.
An imperial decree issued Wednesday
appoints the censorship conferees.
Privy Councillor Kobeko is the president,
and the membership Of the conference
includes numerous senators and other
officials. The conferees will begin their
labors about February 49,
Spread Of Strike Wave.
Disorders in the smaller industri IL
towns of Poland have added more than
a score to the total of the killed, ana
troops have been sent to Warsaw and
kutno, SO miles west of Warsaw, to auell
uprisings there. The strike conditions
in the Caucasus are becoming worse,
and traffic on the Transcaucasian rail-
way is interrupted.
Students Warned.
Gen. Trepoff has ordered the curator
of education to instruct all professors
in universities and teachers in schools
OF st. Petersburg to inform their stu
dents that academic anarchy must cease.
Students must resume their studies by
February %, and those refusing to do
SO will be expelled. If the majority re-
fuse, or the professors associate them
selves with the movement, the univer-
stiles and schools, Gen. Trepoff an
nounces, would be closed and education
in st. Petersburg would cease.
Father Gopon in Switzerland.
Father Gopon, the leader Of the work.
men of st. Petersburg in the affair of
January %, Is now known to be in
Switzerland.