The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-12-23
RUSSIA is ON THE EVE OF
GREAT AND FINAL STRUG-
GLE FOR MASTERY.
ALL READY FOR Big BATTLE
COLLISIONS BETWEEN REDS
AND LOYALISTS MOMEN-
TARILY EXPECTED.

ST. Petersburg, Dec. 21.-Russ1a is
ON the eve of a great, if not final,
struggle for mastery between the
government and the proletariat. Both
sides have lined up for battle.
A call for a general political strike
| throughout Russia to begin Thursday
at noon, was issued last night. The
call is approved by the union OF
unions, the union of peasants, the
general railway union and the coun-
ellis of workmen of st. Petersburg and
Moscow.
A response received from the rail
road men of Moscow is unanimous
| for the strike.
Stop Every Railroad.
The leaders have declared their
ability to stop every railroad in Rus
| STA.
| The strike order renders every
member Of the unions signing it liza
| Bile to arrest and punishment under
| the new strike law, and Minister OF
| the Interior Dmnovo attempted to
| telegraph orders to Moscow to arrest
members of the railway union and of
the workmen's council, but the dis
patches were held up by the railroad
| telegraphers.
Blames the Government.
The Molva (the name under which
the suppressed Russ is now appear
ing) declares that the responsibility
| for a general strike will rest upon the
shoulders of the government 1t
charges that it is the purpose OF
Count Witte to postpone the assem-
bling of the douma until next summer
and in the meantime to "pacify'' the
country in the old bureaucratic way.
A committee representing the Mos
COW bourse arrived here yesterday to
implore Count Witte to do something
to ward off the blow of a general
strike and also to settle the post and
telegraph strike Immediately, as the
only means of preventing
Financial Ruin.
The committee painted the outlook
in black colors. 1t is said that while
one week of the general strike would
beggar the proletariat, it also would
spell the ruin of countless industries.
There is an air of suppressed ex-
element throughout the city. The
streets have a regular holiday appear
ance in honor of the emperor's name
day and are crowded.
Collisions between the reds and
ioyanists are momentari.y expected,
but none has been reported up to this
hour
Mount Machine Guns.
Batteries of machine guns are sta
toned at several points of vantage
throughout the city and patrols of in
fantry and Cossacks are everywhere.
specially heavy guard is stationed
in the neighborhood Of the Jewish
market
The league of leagues in expressing
its approval of an Immediate and gen
eral strike, has issued manifesto
accusing the government of the per-
petration of fresh crimes. The league
declares that a continuance of the
power of the present government is
a danger to the country. It's mani
festo says that the government is
Provoking Conflict
which is forcing the revolutionary
movement further along the fatal
path, concluding with a declaration
of the solidarity of the wOrkmen with
the aims of the league and a call to
all the unions to mobilize their forces
so as to be in readiness for political
strike.
Instead of the expected prOmulga-
ton of the election law and of a man
ifesto donating the crown appanages
to the peasants, the emperor's name
day was signalized by the declara-
ton Of martial law in the provinces
of Suwalki, on the German frontier of
Poland, and by the gazetting of dec
orations and promotions, mostly in
the army, which cover forty-seven
columns in the Official Messenger.