Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-01-28
Newspapers Again Pub
Iished in St. Petersburg.
Officials Say the City Is Once
More Quiet.
Labor Agitators Seeking the Woods
The Situation.

st. Petersburg. Jan. 2..-Early re-
ports, Friday, from all over Russia IN
dicate that the strike situation is flat
tening out. The authorities regard the
danger of a general tie-up of Russian
industries as practically over and de-
clare that the attempt to turn the
movement into a general political re-
volt has failed.
The governments promise of shorter
hours of labor has been proclaimed in
Moscow and other cities and seems to
have had effect upon the workmen
The political side of the movement is
again sinking beneath the surface.
When and what form it will again
break out only the future can deter
mine.
The authorities everywhere seeming
ly are attempting to treat the work
men whose aspirations are purely
economic without harshnesS and are
appealing to their patriotism by point
ing out the benefit which will acrue to
the japanese by a suspension of work
at The arSenalS. dockyardS. etc.
On the other hand the authorities are
putting down the revolutiOnSts with a
forced to cover. meetings being almost
impossible. Many foreign correspond
ents are fiocking in to find that the
acute stage is past and some of them
have been driven to repeating the hor-
ror stories of Sunday. while others are
| indulging in the widest inventions
particularly about the intrigues ana
| terrOrs prevailing at court. The latest
sensational report is that the Emperor
and the imperial family have fled TO
Lavidia.
There were only two Russian news
PAPERS out of the four which appeared
| here, Friday morning. The accounts of
the Sunday tragedy are colorless and
| in their editorials are only able with
great circumlocutiOn to indicate the
feeling of popular Indignation.
II A. M.-All was quiet during the
night; traffic in the streets. Friday
morning, is practically normal Here
there small groups of workmen are
| reMading Gov. Gen. Trepoff's procla-
nation. Four papers were published
Friday morning. Their Offices were
guarded by police patrols all night long.
MoAIst of the compositors will resume
work, Friday.
The troops have disappeared from
the streets. The press administration
has sent a circular to the newspapers
prohibiting the publication of news OF
comment regarding the strike.
Everything indication seems to point
to the disintegration OF the strike
| movement in Russia. Several large fac
tories in st. Petersburg reopened. yes
| terday and {. general re resumption OF
work on MOndly is expected by the
employees. Gen. Kuropatkin's report of
| the success Of his latest forward move
| ment seems to have ACQUIRED in St
Petersburg the added importance OF
heing a check to keep advance. 1t IS
| probable that this has had some effect
toward uuieting the uneasy populace
of the Russian capital but in any cas-.
the WOrkmen seem to have been con-
| vcrted to the idea that their surest
| reliarce for remedy Of their grieVanca IS
is in the government. At Warsaw. yes
terday. there was a serious collision
, between wOrkmcn and soldiers Official
reports giving the casualties as two
killed and : wounded. The strike a
| Libau continues and there has beer
| no material change in the situation al
Moscow. Saraiof and LODI. There are
grave fears of trouble at IvanOvo-NoZ-
5 noansk, the foremost cotton goods
manufacturing town in the empire
Predictions are made that the ending
Of the strike will but result in increas-
ed activity on the present revolution
lists.