Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-21
A GENERAL STRIKE
IS NOW PROCLAIMED
Street Railway Service Com
pletely Suspended.
DECIDE TO CLOSE EVERYTHING
Strike Leaders Do Not Hope to Bring
Life of Empire to a standstll by a
Single Stroke, but Will Labor for a
Gradual Extension.

! SHt9ie SATokS, pub VIII LABOR Tor q
Gradual Extension.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 20.-1:20 D. NJ
| The proclamation of a general strike
for tomorrow at noon has created the
most intense excitement If it can be
successfully inaugurated and maintain
ed the revolutionaries are confident
that it will break the government
back. In government circles, how
ever, confidence is expressed that the
proletariat organizations can not ef
feet a complete tie-up and that the
strike must be of a short duration.
This hope seems based on The theo
ry that the extreme program of the
reds has alienaJed the sympathy of q
large proportion of the real workmen
and also on what they claim to be OBJ
solute knowledge that the organiza
tions are without funds. The govern
ment's calculations, however, have
proved deplorably at variance with
! the true situation in the past and the
strike leaders declare the government
is again hOpelessly ignorant of the
magnitude of the struggle confronting
it. Their plans are exceedingly am
bilious
From the nature of the appeals OF
the leaders to the troops it is evident
that they expect to precipitate crisis
in the army.
The central committee OF railroad
men of Moscow which determined the
issue last night by voting in favor of
strike has telegraphed over the rail
road lines that the employees of 22
roads are ready to stop all traffic the
decision is to close everything in the
empire, railroads, manufacturing, the
wholesale and retail stores and all
government works, except the water
works. The bakeries in the cities,
however, will not be closed so long as
they do not raise their prices. II
they raise the price of bread, even the
bakeries will be closed 1t was pro
posed in Moscow to exempt the electric
light plants, but this was defeated.
Although the blow was timed for
tomorrow noon on account of the diff
Guilty of communication the strike lead
ers do not hope to bring the life of
the empire to a standstill by single
stroke, but they will labor for a grad
ual extension of the strike movement
The nature of the manifesto of the
workmen's council of Moscow to the
army is so infammatory that even the
radical papers are afraid to print it..
During the strike it is proposed 70
stop all papers and to print and distrib-
ute only the organ Of the workmen' S
council
The police are hunting down and
arresting strike leaders as rapidly as
they can be found in the comparative
ly few captures have been made as the
leaders keep in hiding, avoiding their
residences and meeting each time at
a different locality.
The helplessnsss of the government
in this crisis is demonstrated by the
inability of of Interior Minister Durno
vo last night to get thorough insUruc-
tions to arrest members of the work
mems council Of Moscow. He attempt
ed to use the railroaad wires, but the
operators obeyed the dictum Of the
council and refused to send the mes
sage. The government is even un-
able to forward instructions to Gener-
al Linevitch, commander of the Man
churian army Five operators in sue
cession on the railroad lines declined
to send cipher dispatch signed by the
emperor.
On account of some confusion the
general strike was proclaimed at Mos
COW at noon today instead of tomor-
row. 1t was inaugurated there witl a
complete suspension of the street rail
road service,
All the men walked out of the fac
tories and mills, and the trains on the
six railroads were left standing in the
stations. Shortly afterward an in
coming train on the Kursk road was
fired into by armed strikers. The en-
gineer and several passengers were
wounded.
The strikers generally seem provii-
ed with arms. There is great excite
menu in this city
Yale to Have Museum.
New Haven, Conn, Dec. 20.-Yale
is to have a commercial museum. This
announcement was made following ne
arrival of a shipment of valuable plant
and textile collections from the depart
ment of agriculture. The shipment
which filled two cars includes the i'm
portant exhibits at the Portland ex
position besides additional S-.ts from
the agricultural department and the
Canadian Pacific.