The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-02-03
Emperor Nicholas Listens to Dep
utatiOn of WOrkmen at
TsarskOye-SelO.
THEY WENT ON HIS INVITATION.
He Gave Assurance of His Intention
to Ameliorate Conditions and Re-
move Cause of the Strike.
Proclamation Issued Conveying Heart
felt Sympathy For Families OF
Those Killed and Sum of $685.
600 Given For Their Aid.

St. Petersburg, Feb. personal
assurances of his intention to amel-
iorate the conditions and remove the
causes in so far as they are economic
which led to the recent strike, were
delivered by Emperor Nicholas to
workingmen representing all the lead
ing factories of st. Petersburg, who at
his invitation journeyed to Tsarskoe-
Selo and were received in audience in
the hall of the Alexander palace,
where he has his winter residence.
The deputation comprised represen-
tatives of 80 OF the largest industrial
establishments in st. Petersburg, in
GLIDING the Baltic and FTanco-Russian
ship yards, the Putiloff iron works
and the Russo-American rubber
works.
This interview face to face with
their Little Father" in whom their
faith has not been shaken by the
events of the bloody Sunday of Janu-
airy %, has had far greater and more
reassuring effect than any number of
proclamations by ministers and gov
ernor generals, and the workmen OF
St. Petersburg are now generally in
clined to accept the promises Of Gov.
Gen. Trepoff and Finance Minister
Kekovsoff at their face value.
Produced An Excellent Effect.
The gift by the imperial family Of
$4,000 to aid the families Of the vic
tins of the conflict on January % also
has had an excellent effect and as the
news slowly permeates the laboring
classes of Russia, it is expected that
it will make them content to- wait for
the promised reforms.
Like a wave caused by the falling
of a stone, the strike movement, how
ever, is spreading over the great sea
of Russian industrial life; and while
st. Petersburg and Moscow, where
the troubles began, are now placid, the
workmen of Poland and other pro
vinces are not yet calm, and the rip
pie has reached TO far off Irkutsk and
other Siberian towns.
Emperor Nicholas adopted the ira
ditional fatherly tone in his talk with
allowing themselves to be misled into
engaging in q movement imperilling
ll--I--v-,- -I---.sa,. of Russia and aid
ing the foreign foe and for attempting
to demand by force what he otherwise
would be willing to do voluntarily.
The Workmen Cheered.
Thu workmen received the royal as
surances Of reform with cheers and
after lunch at the imperial table re-
turned to St. Petersburg in the best
of humor to report to their fellows, as
enjoined, the words of his majesty.
No attempt was made by them to pre-
sent their desires which already are
sufficiently evident.
The action of the st. Petersburg
manufacturers in placing themselves
in the hands of the government in the
matter of the adjustment of the main
points of the dispute and to grant the
men pay for the time they have been
on strike, not as a matter of right,
but as a favor, and their contribution
in aid of the sufferers among the fami-
lies of their workmen, are expected to
add to the prevailing good feeling.
An Official proclamation conveys the
heartfelt sympathies of emperor, the
empress and the dowager empress TO
the families of those killed in the
street fighting of January %. They
have placed $4,000 at the disposal Of
the governor general, Trepoff, for the
aid of the families of the sufferers.