Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-12
Wiser Counsel Among Labor
Leaders Prevailed
AT RUSSIAN CAPITAL
COUNCIL AT ST.
PETERSBURG REJECTED PLAN.
a Triumvirate Will Guide Organiza.
tion in Future-First Disaffection
Among the Cossacks.

ST. PETERSBURG. Monday December
IL tmorning), via Eydtkuhnen East Prus-
sia, December 12-Caution having prevailed
over the fury aroused by the arrest of the
strike leaders, the workmen's council has
rejected the proposition to order a. general
strike at present, as untimely, and has de-
cided that the workmen should bide their
time Patiently until all the preparations
are complete The council realized the
weakness and unpreparedness of the work.
men for general conflict and had been liz
formed that the railroad men had already
decided against strike.
The remnants of the labor and socialist
delegates held a secret meeting in the hall
of the Economic Society at an early hour
this morning, declined TO accept the cnal-
lenge of the government and adopted a
resolution against the arrest of NJ. Kra-
staloff, the president of the executive conn
mittee of the Workmcns Council and tho
other st. Petersburg leaders. which, It w3s
pointed out, was only of local impor- ance
and did not furnish cause for general
strike. The resolution, however declared
that it was the sacred duty of all workmcn
to carry on the work begun by the arrested
leaders of equippins and preparing the
hghting legions of workmen for an armed
uprising, adding:
I'm the name of the future proetariat wo
refuse to make any active protest at pres-
ent."
trumvirate hereafter will guide the
Workmens Council. The government on
Saturday arrested the most hrainy men OF
the organiza ton, and the remaining dele.
gates, not having sufficient confidence in
any of their number, chose an executive
committee of three to guide the policy OF
the council until events bring forth a
worthy successor of NJ krustaloff.
Cossacks Disaffected
Tho sentimept of rho Uorl-map'S dayo..
which was extremely depressed. has been
somewhat raised by the receipt of dis
patch from Moscow claiming that the revo-
lutionary propaganda has finally taken root
among the Cossac1s the last hope of the
reaction. The Sd Squadron of the 1st
regiment of Don Cossacks is reported to-
have held meeting and to have drawn up
service demands, claiming that the men are
fed like dogs and shabbily clothed. The
government officials were forced to deprive
the soldiers of their rifles and lances. This
IS the first sign of dislffection on the part
OF the Cossacks.
The post and telegraph situation is stead-
lily ameliorating, though no wires are work.
ing to points outside of Russia, and tele-
graphic communication with the interor
is very faulty. Many of the striking oper-
ators have lost heart owing to the news
from Moscow that the leaders when ar
rested We're indulging in expensive sup
Per at a Moscow restaurant in company
with women strikers, and spending the
strike funds lavishly on champagne ana
expensive cigars and liquors.
Rioting in the Jewish Quarter.
VIENNA, December PA dispatch to
the Neue Freie Presse from Bucharest,
Roumania, says: Reports received here
through refugees declare that since Sum
day the town of Elisabethgrad. Russia, has
been burning and that mob has been kill
inc nd Numbering in the Jewish quarter.
A regiment is proceeding to Elisabethgrad
from Kishineff to restore order there"