The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-27
NICHOLAS THRONE To7TEalNG.
Spread of Strike Movement Portencs
Bloodier Occurrence to Come.

Bloodier Occurrence to Come.
Berlin, Jan. 25-The Lokal Anzeiger
has received special from st. Pc
tcrsburg saying there is no longer any
doubt about the present movement
being a revolution. It's leaders are
Selling every opportunity to work
upon the feelings of the burdened peo-
pie, filling all with enthusiasm, even
petty state officials joining the cause
OF freedom.
Ominous news comes filtering in
from Russian provinces. especially
Moscow. Odessa and Kieff, and the I'M
certainty Of what is happening there
is worse than bad news.
Every one in the city is in fever
heat, feeling that danger is imminent
Moscow Joins Movement.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-The most
startling feature in the situation last
night was the news that several fac
tories in Moscow have closed and that
the workingmen in the old capital of
Moscow are repeating the tactics of
their fellow workmen of the new cap
ital, marching from shop to shop and
mill to mill, demanding that the es-
adjustments be shut down. The whole
city is reported to be in a state of
great excitement over the news of the
bloodshed here Sunday which has
precipltated Immediately the strike
that had been planned for Wednesday,
MOsrnW ho..
troops than st. Petersburg, and be-
sides is just now the heart of the
liberal movement, and the danger OF
RIoodier Occurrences
there than have been witnessed here
arc proportionately greater. A ris-
ing at Moscow is also more likely to
have greater results industrially and
politically than that in st. Petersburg.
According to private reports the
Workmen in several other big cities,
notably Kharkoff, where large locomo-
tive works are located, already have
completed plans for a general sus.
pension of work.
Moreover reports are current that
the workmen, who otherwise would be
forced back into the shops or starve,
have received assurances Of financial
support from the sources which hith-
erto have furnished 3.
The Sinews of War
to the liberal and socialistic agitation,
but have never before been in touch
with the labor movement
If the strike becomes general all
over Russia, and especially if the rail
roads are drawn in it might immedi-
ately force the nation to make peace
with Japan.
The situation appears grave from
every standpoint; but the authorities,
although apparently somewhat Devil
dered, declare their purpose to stand
firm, maintaining that it is their first
duty to preserve order, and scouting
the idea of actual revolution.
Car to Make Concession.
There are extremely significant re-
ports that Emperor Nicholas, in max
ing the decision at the extraordinary
meeting of the council of the empire
at Tsarskoe Selo yesterday to de-
clare st. Petersburg in a state of
siege, announced that he had resolved
to issue manifesto to the people with
view to calming them, promising to
create mixed commission of work
men and officials to Investigate and
decide the questions of the demands
of the strikers, especially the one at
fecting the hours of labor, which Rus
sian law fixes at eleven. The repre-
sentatives of the worSmen, according
to this report, are not to be appoint
ed, but selected by the laboring men
themselves. This would be the first
concession to the representative prin-
ciple.
According to reports the emperor
will al1o promise to investigate Sun
days events in st. Petersburg.
Day Passes Without Rloodshed.
Yesterday there was no reDetitiOn