The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-27
STRIKES IN RUSSIA
nine RAILROADS RADIATlNG OUT
OF MOSCOW Are CLOSED.
Commercial Heart of Russia Cut on
From Rest of Observation-Disclosures
lists Have Shown Their Ability
Factory Strike Looked For-Famine
Stricken District Cannot Get Relief.

Moscow. Oct. 24-Traf1ic on seven
of the nine main trunk arteries OF COM
merce radiating from Moscow is COM
pleteIy paralyzed by the railroad
strike. and the commercial heart OF
Russia has been shut off from all COM
munication with the rest OF the en-
pire. except with the narrow section
to the northwestward, including st.
Petersburg and the Baltic provinces.
Though the government has ordered
the railroad battalions of the army to
proceed to Moscow and take the places
of the strikers for the purpose OF re-
storing traffic, the revolutionists, by
a sudden and unexpected blow, have
shown their ability to lay their hands
ON the throat of the nations CONNER
cial life.
The strikers forced the employees OF
the general Offices and financial depart
ments of three lines, the Windau and
Rybinsk, the Moscow and Brest-
Liovsk and the Kieff and veronese, to
quit work The city is already feeling
the effects of milk and meat famine,
and a few days continuance OF the
strike will cause serious embarrass-
ment, and even suffering, to the popu-
lation The renewal of the factory
strike is not improbable.
An important development Sunday
was the strike on the Brest-Llovsk,
which runs to Minsk and Warsaw and
carries international traffic from Mos
COW to Germany, Austria and other
parts of Europe. The engineers and
firemen have drawn the fires and de-
serted the engines. Communication
with points abroad, however, is still
open by way of st. Petersburg and
Pskoff.
During the morning a crowd OF
strikers proceeded to the freight sta
ton of the Kursk road and let off the
steam of eight engines, drove away
the guards and forced the employees to
stop work. The traffic over the road
thereupon stopped.
The strike, coming at this time, is
apt to seriously cripple the work or
and also to impede the movement OF
this years grain crop, as the rail-
roads under normal conditions are not
able to keep the grain crop moving
promptly. Official reports show that
139.824 loaded cars were awaiting re-
moval on October 20 in various Sec
lions, and that the grain and coal
handling districts are daily increas-
ing their accumulatiOns at the rail-
road stations.
Great suffering is certain if the
supply of grain and other provisions
can not be forwarded into the famine
stricken districts, where, up to the
present, the work of relief had not
been carried out successfully.
Later Report.
st. Petersburg.-The railroad strike
situation has now entered on highly
serious phase. The movement is
spreading rapidly to all the railroads
of the empire, and apparently can not
be stopped, while in many cities it is
communicating itself to the mill and
factory employees. The general strike
in all branches of labor, which the So
cialists planned for the end Of this
year is suddenly bursting forth of it's
own vOlitiOn.
Minister of Finance KokvOsoff has
received telegram frC;l the govern
ing committee of the Moscow bourse
which said that a continuation of the
strike for a week longer would force
every factory in the Moscow region to
shut down owing to lack of coal,
whether or not the factory hands took
part in the strike.