Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-22
MUTINY AT COMEL
Congress of Zemstvos at Mos
 COW to Support Witte.
NORKMEN TAKE AN EIGHT HOUR DAY
Prince DoIgorukon Declared That Regime of Autocracy and Bureau- cracy Had Come to an End.
 Martial Law In Provinces.

cracy Had Come to an End.
 Martial Law In Provinces.
 ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 9. - Ad- vices received from Gomel, In the gov ernment of that name say that a bat faIion of reseryists thousand strong has mutinied following demand for better food
 Admiral Birileff has closed the ad- miralty works on the Neva because the workmen accorded themselves an eight < hour day and left the shops at 4 o'clock without permission
 At the Hubbard, Pahl, Westinghouse and other important works the men in- sist on a reduction of hours and have adopted a course of dropping their tools after they have labored eight hours.
 Count Witte, it is said, contemplates the wholesale prescription of workmen who participated in the recent strikes. land there may be recurrence of the labor crisis. Three thousand men have been already dismissed from the Baltic works alone.
 There is an alarming spread of agra- ! Yian outrages which has caused the ex- { tension of martial law to the provinces 2 of Penza and Zursk in addition to [ those in which it had been proclaimed. 2 The sentiment of the zemstvo con !. gress at Moscow is veering distinctly ' to the side of Count Witte, and it now ' seems probable that large majority s of delegates will favor resolution to x come to the assistance of the govern : ment against the forces of revolution 2 and Reorganization, though only be- I cause such action is regarded by a z considerable faction as the least of Y many evils 4- | Such leaders as M.uSStchepkine of Y Moscow, Alexander Stakovitch, Mi s chael stakoyitch, Prince Paul Dolgoru- koff and Prince volkonsky of Riazan, who are among the most prominent 9 men in Russia and who have the con- Z, fidence of those engaged in the reform movement, came out boldly at the ses- sion and laid down as plain truth '. that only through cooperation with z the government, good or bad though it < might be, lay the way to happy z realization of the liberties promised by 2 the imperial manifesto of Oct. 30. The presiding officer of the congress 5 was Count Mukhanoff, former mar shal of the nobility of Chernigov, who was dismissed from his post for ad- z dressing telegram directly to the en- 2 peror.
 ]. The speech of Prince Paul Dolgoru- koff was one of the best delivered since the opening of the congress.
 @ The ministry of Count Witte. which 2 he compared to a commission in bank ruptcy. was far from ideal. but he !. said that it must be supported and sus- z fained. The prince bFoughtvthe con gress to its feet at the end of his 2 speech by declaring that no matter who l might be at the head of the govern z ment the regime of autocracy and the bureaucracy had now been relegated to 5. the limbo of ''idiotic phantasies," allud- ing to the words used by the emperor in his answer to M. Petrunkevitch ! when decade ago at the reception of !: the delegations from the zemstvos aft CT the coronation the Liberal from 2 Tver warned bis majesty of the neces. sity of convoking the representatives of x the people. ...I
 Alexander stakovich said that Count witte was an intelligent and ambitious man, who would try to put into prac. tce the principles of the manifesto. but that unless he were properly aided the premier would fall under the influence e of the court circles and be forced into the path of reaction. He advocated the eonvocation as quickly as possible of a douma based on universal suffrage and the dispatch of a deputation of zemst voists to St. Petersburg to advise and confer with Count witter
 N. Abramov. delegate of stavror9i speaking at Moscow, said: The agra riGn rising has become a terror. It has
 already spread over twenty-four gov
 ernments and has acquired such dimen
 sions that the terrible times of Puga
 tchsH are child's play compared to 1t. "
 Count wltte is working at high pres
 sure to try to remove popular distrust
 He has ordered 11e immediate prepara
 ton Of laws drawn up on the lines ot z those ln modern countries and will alse
 introduce what will be virtually a ha
 beas corpzs act.
 At syzran disorders broke out smonl
 sailors who were returning from ths
 far east. Troops were hastily sent tr
 guard the naval station so as to pre-
 vent pillsging.
 Meyer Not Afraid.
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