Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-03-03
in RUSSIAN empire
STRIKES ARE INCREASING BY AID
OF POLITICAL PLANS.
Look for Peasant Outbreak in the
Spring When Workmen Will Join in
Monster Movement Against the Gov
ernment-PoIicemen Are Kept From
Going on Strike by Soldier Guards.

st. Petersburg, March 1.-Evidence
is increasing that Inc strikes through
out the empire, and especially those in
St. Petersburg, are not economic In
their origin, but inspired by definite
political plan. The government and
employers are embarrassed by the tao
tics of the workmen, whose discomfort
is being fed and who are increasing
their demands with each new conces-
sion.
This condition is believed to have
been fomented by crafty political agi-
tators, who are stirring up the men,
and at the same time holding them in
leash, apparently awaiting some sig
nal for concerted action. Fear is en-
tertained that this widespread agita-
ton may be connected with a plan to
await possible peasant outbreak in
the spring, with which a general strike
will be synchronized, the workmen
joining hands with the peasants.
The situation in Riga is again re-
ported to be very serious. The au-
thorities there apparently are unable
to cope with the lawless element.
Civil War in Caucasus.
In the Caucasus the situation is ex-
tremely bad, practically amounting to
civil war. In Baku the inhabitants. bar
ricaded in their houses, are petitioning
the central authorities at St. Peters
burg for relief from the existing condi-
tons of affairs. The government is
sending reinforcements of troops, but
while these may be able to stop tie
reign of terror, they will be impotent
to start the wheels of industry. Pro
prietors fear that the oil wells will be
if pumping is suspended much |
longer. Conditions in other towns in |
he Caucasus are equally desperate.
Owing to the gravity of the situa-
lion in the Caucasus and apprehen-
sion based on depletion of the district
.roops for the war, the government
has appealed to the Armenian Catho-
les to exert their personal influence
o persuade Armenians to cease their
lgitation. The catholicos went to
Avarian, where he exhorted people to
emain tranquil.
Stop the War, Is the Demand.
Strikes have broken out at the
coal mine and on the Siberian
ailway at Chita. The strikers at the
after place demand that the war be
topped
Dispatches from Batoum report that
omiciliary searches for arms have
zen instituted in the quarters of the
In Siberia as well as in other parts
4 the empire the government has
ranted considerable concessions to
ailway employees, in some cases &C.
ording them reduction of the hours
I labor to nine day. This renders
he situation of private employers in
reasingly difficult, as they claim that
is impossible for them to concede SO
luch
More Strike Talk at Moscow. |
Postal Telegraph officials at Moscow /
re threatening to strike unless their
emands-improvement of their con- ,
i1OHSTdre granted.
Warsaw Situation Worse.
Every policeman on duty at Warsaw {
accompanied by a soldier. The an !
lorities, fearing a strike by the no. !
&C. ordered this precaution. so that i
the event of an officer leaving his I
ost it will not be unprotected. The {
leasure is further intended to guard I
olicemen from possible attack by '
-rikers.
The police demand $3.50 per month '
he same scale that is paid at ST /
etersburg. The present pay here is S
per month +
The private coachmen and livery
able men. here struck today. The :
rike of street railway employees con-
nues.
Some $4,000 strikers from the big =
on mills will return to work. all their !
having been granted. These :
Guide a nine hour day instead of Z
IL hours, and an increase in wages +
from to 25 per cent