Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-25
A MUTINY AT GOMEZ
Congress of zemstvos at Mos
cow to Support White.
W0RKMEN TAKE AN EIGHT HOUR DAY
Prince DoIgorukoT Declared That
Regime of Autocracy and Bureaus
craey Had Come To an End.
Martial Law In Provinces.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. o. - Adj
vices received from Gomel, in the gov
eminent of that name, say that bat
TALON of reservists thousand strong
has mutinied following demand for
better food
Admiral Brileff has closed the adj
miralty works OH the Neva because the
worllmen accorded themselves an eight
hour day and left the shops at o'clock
without permission.
Count White, it is said, contemplates
tile wholesale prescription of workmsn
who participated in the recent strikes,
and there may be recurrence of the
labor crisis. Three thousand men have
been already dismissed from the Baltic
works alone.
There is an alarming spread of agra
rian outrages which has caused the ex-
tension of martial law TO the provinces
OF Pcnza and Zursk ia addition to
those in which it had been proclaimed.
The sentiment of the zemstvo con-
gress ut Moscow is veering distinctly
to the side of Count White, and it now
seems probable that a large majority
of delegates will favor a resolution to
come to the assistance of the govern
ment against the forces Of revolution
and Reorganization, though only be-
cause such action is regarded by a
considerable faction as the least of
many evils.
oh az y oh IL If
Moscow, Alexander Stakovitch. Mi
chael Stakovitch, Prince Paul Dolgoru-
koff and Prince Volkonsky of Riazan,
who are among the most prominent
men in Russia and who have the con-
fidcnce of those engaged in the reform
movement, came out boldly at the SEES
sion and laid down as a plain truth
that only through cooperation with
the government, good or bad though it
might be, lay the way to happy
realization of the liberties promised by
the imperial manifesto of Oct 80.
The presiding officer of the congress
was Count Mukhanoff, a former mar
shall of the nobility of Chernigov, who
was dismissed from his post for ad-
dressing telegram directly to the en-
peror.
The speech of Prince Paul Dolgoru-
kOff was one of the best delivered since
the opening of the congress.
The ministry of Count White, which
he compared to commission in bank
ruptcy, was far from ideal, but he
said that it must be supported ana sus-
tanned. The prince brought the con-
gress to its feet at the end of his
speech by declaring that no matter who
might be at the head of the govern
ment the regime of autocracy and the
bureaucracy had now been relegated to
the limbo of "ldiotic phantasies," allud-
ing to the words used by the emperor
in his answer to NJ. Petrunkevitch
when decade ago at the reception of
the delegations from the zemstvos aft
er the coronation the Liberal from
Tver warned his majesty of the neces-
sity of cOnvOkng the representatives of
the people
Alexander Stakovich said that Count
Witte was IN intelligent and ambitious
man. who would try to put into prac-
tice the principles of the manifesto but
that unless he were properly aided the
premier would fall under the influence
of the court circles and be forced into
the path of reaction. He advocated the
| convocation as quickly as possible of a
douma based on universal suffrage and
the dispatch of a deputation of zemst-
voists to st. Petersburg to advise and
confer with Count White.