The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-27
FLATTENING OUT.
Attempt to Turn Strike Into
Revolution Has Failed.
Danger of a General Tie Up Re-
garded as Past.
GOVERNMENT PROMISE
OF Shorter Hours Seems to Be
Having an Effect.
Revolt Is Being Put Down With
a Strong Hand.

Willie 14O encounters DELMCEL
the strikers and the authorities have oc-
Cured today's dispatches from Russian
points indicates that the strike move
ment is spreading. At NIitau bodies of
strikers marched to the shops and COM
PEELED the men who We're at work to
leave AT Warsaw a strike began to-
day and is spreading rapidly, but with
out disorder. A general strike has be-
gun at Leeds. At Moscow and St. Pc
tersburg the authorities have the situa-
tion under control and the day has pass
ed quietly. In the former city some
men have returned to work. Advices
from St Petersburg are to the effect
that the authorities regard the danger
OF a general tie up of Russian indus
tries as past and assert that the at
tempt to convert the movement into a
political revolt has failed.
St. Petersburg. Jan. 27-Early reports
from all over Russia indicate that the
strike situation is fiattening out The
authorities regard the danger of a gen
eral tie up of Russian industries as
practically over and declare that the
attempt to turn the movement into
general political revolt has failed. The
governments promise of shorter hours
Of labor has been proclaimed in Mos
COW and other cities and seems to have
had effect upon the Workmen- The po-
ntical side of the movement is again
sinking beneath the surface. When
and in what form it will again break
out only the future can determine.
The authorities everywhere seeming
~ are attempting to treat the workmen
whose aspirations are purely economic
without harshness and are appealing to
their patriotism by pointing out the
benefit which viii accrue to the Jap
anese by a suspension of work at the
arSenalS dock yards, etc. On the other
hand the authorities are putting down
the reyolutionists with a stern hand.
The latter have again been forced to
cover, their meetings being almost inn
possible Many correspondents are
focxing here to find that the acute
stage is past and some Of them have
been driven to repeating the horror
stories Of Sunday while others are in
dulgIng in the widest inventions par
ticularly about the intrigues and ter
rOrs Prevailing at court The latest
sensational report is that the emperor
and the imperial family have fed to
Lavidia-
Only two Russian newspapers out of
the four heretofore appeared this morn
ing. Their accounts of the Sunday
tragedy are colorless and their editor
ials are only able with great circumlo-
cution to indicate the feeling of popular
indigna ton
The morgue still contains many un-
identified dead. The hands of some of
the victims are white and on their
fingers are diamond rings, the supposi-
ton being that they were liberals of
gentle birth in sympathy with the
strike movement who dressed up as
workmen and took part in the demon
strations.
Quiet at Moscow.
Moscow. Jan. 27.-The night passed
quietly Work was resumed this
morning in some of the factories on
the SamoSkaretschje quarter.
The prefect has issued a proclama-
tion declaring that the demands of the
--lxv-- he, ina.
isfied within legal limits when work is
resumed The men are urged to re-
sumo their employn ents without delay
and are threatened with arrest if they
attempt to incite a spread of the
strike.
The master printers and newspaper
proprietors, at meeting just held,
have resolved to act unitedly and not
to increase the pay of the compost
tors.
There is every prospect Of a termina-
tion of the strike without bloodshed.
Only now is the political side of the
movement coming to the surface.
As the chief of police, Roudnef has
also posted a proclamation pointing out
that the government action will be a
reduction of the hours of labor, etc,
declaring that the preservation of order
is indispensable and urging the work
men to return to work
Although this is pay day, the employ
ers at the request of the authorities
have posted notices at the closed fac
tories that the men will not be paid un-
til work is resumed. the fear being that
If they are paid while idle they will
indulge in vodka and precipitate trouble
which the employers and authorities are
seriously trying to avoid Troops are
still posted at various points in the
city but SO far as possible they are
kept out of sight in order to avoid ir-
ritating the workmen.
Strike NIitau
NFitau, Russia. Jan. 27-Labor
agents from Riga organized a strike
here today. Bodies of strikers march
ed to the factories and workshops and
compelled the men at work to leave
their employment. Troops have been
summoned to the scene of the dis
turbance.
Promises and Threats.
Kovno, Russia, Jan 27.-The governor
In receiving a deputation of worknen
today promised assistance in improving
their relations with their employers. on
the governors initiative the latter met
and drew up a scheme for the ameliora-
ton Of the workers position
a proclamation has been posted bv
the governor urging the strikers Ia r.
sumo work and promising an legitimate
help towards obtaining a satisfactory
settlement of their just demands at tha
same time he would have recourse ro
the troops in the event of the street dis
orders
They Lack Funds.
Chicago, Jan. 27-''Such assassfna tioas
rs that Of Won Piehve cost money and
carry on this work" said Bronisliy
elavinsBy. editor OF the Polish Rabor-
nix. a socialist paper, at a banquet Tor
Nine. BreshkOvski. the Russian exile al
He Lessing club house last night. Mr.
5lavinsky continued:
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