Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-20
RADICAL PLANS CHECKED
Russian Workmsn Stand BY Declaration to
Declare Strike Of.
SOCIALISTS SEEK TO MODIFY ORDER
Sunday Passes In Russian Capital
without the Disturbances which
Were Anticipated as Result
of strike.
BULLETIN.

of strike.
BULLETIN.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2O.--3:l0 a M
The conservative leaders in the council
Of workmen are again victorious At 2s5
O'Clock this morning they carried a reso-
luton against any attempt to introduce
movement for an eight-hour day.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2O.-After the
severe reverse which they suffered early
yesterday morning. when, at the end of a
seven-hour debate the council OF workmen
decided to abandon the industrial strike,
the leaders of the extremist socialist fac
tions OF the St Petersburg workmen are
again engaged in a hard and apparently
losing fight in defense of resolution for
an eight-hour day which was the slogan
of last weeks strike, but which was aban-
doned at the last moment in favor OF an
appeal for the lives Of the muntineers at
Cronstandt and the liberty Of Poland.
When the convention convened last night
a socialist representative introduced an
amendment to the resolution calling of
the strike providing that the men In re-
turning to work hereafter labor only eight
hours laying down their tools at O'Clock
in the afternoon instead Of 6 o'clock, while
insisting on the same rate of pay.
Encouraged by their earlier victory the
conservative leaders at once opened a
vigorous opposition Co the resolution, point
ing out the determination of the employers
to regard any attempt to obtain shorter
hours by revolutionary means as the signal
for the lockout of the great mass OF work
men Of st. Petersburg and that they were
I L.. a-gNs r.lg.Vaa aWaI
combat of endurance at the very outset
of a long, cold winter. A number of ora
tors even questioned the wisdom of an
eight-hour day itself, declaring that Russia
at present was not ripe for It. while others
who are in sympathy with the move for
| shorter day declared it would not be
wise TO fritter away their strength at
! this time when n great and decisive com
bat in January was imminent.
Fears Are UnfOunded.
| Apprehensions that the defeat of the
reds" in the council might inspire them
to take violent measures yesterday against
| the troops or the merchants who refused
| to close their places of business Saturday
when ordered by the leaders, were happily
! without foundation. though rumors of col
| lisions between workmen and troops in
| the Vasiliostrov and Putiloff districts were
| in circulation.
At police headquarters. however, it was
! said that there had been no disorder and
at strike headquarters the Associated Press
was informed that there had been no coll
lision. though perhaps a few shots might
have been fired in the air by over-exuber-
| ant demonstrators. Nevertheless. the pa
| trolls In the streets were doubled yester-
day, These were generally commanded by
noncommissioned officers. showing that in
! spite of the rumors OF disaffection among
the troops. the government was not afraid
to trust the soldiers of the guard at large
without commissioned officers.
The high sounding proclamation with
| which the council of workmen announced
the end of the strike, declaring that the
demonstration" had served its purpose
by saving the lives of the mutineers at
Cronstadt, while, of course, it is prin-
cipally a blind to cover defeat, as the
trials of the mutineers are still in progress,
is at the same time shrewd tactics for
use in the propaganda which the council
is actively pushing in the army and navy.
Such a claim, however, cannot disguise
the fact that the strike was lnaugurated
to compel the government not only to par
don Internationally the mutineers, but to
abolish martial law in Poland and to COM
pei the calling of a constituent assembly,
none of which objects has been achieved
The refusal OF the affiliated organizations
in the interior to respond to the call and
the revolt OF many of the better class OF
workmen here against the dictation of po-
litical agitators and walking delegates by
no means represents the full measure OF
the real defeat of the strike movement
The strike by alternating public sympathy
int 4
and moderates to the fact that the frs
duty Of the hour was to stand by the gov
ernment in its efforts to tranquillize the
country and to make head against the tide
of socialism and revolution which wa,
Threatening Russia with anarchy, aidet
| greatly in the formation of the new 'lav
and order" party which has now sprung
into formidable being
Interest Centers In Moscow.
Interest has now shifted to Moscow
where the zemstvo congress opened yes
terday The members of the party from
all parts of the country have gone ther
to make a fight In the congress for tn
union Of all conservative and liberal ele
ments 20 hold up the hands of Coun
! Witte. 10 condemn the political strike an,
TO seek further political salvation througl
the doors opened by the manifesto, thougl
IL is niether expected nor desired that tn
5 constitutional democrats will abjure thei
$ program, while joining in the movemen
o to aid IN the restoration OF tranquility. I
, is expected that a sharp combat will de
Y velop with the large faction OF the zemst
y voists who are arrayed with the socialist
4 TO continue the night against the govern
= ment to the bitter end. The result Of tn
k congress is awaited with the deepest IN
d tsrest.
The failure Of the strike has shown tn
country as a whole how little sympath
there is with Poland in its demand 10
complete autonomy At Moscow the rail
E road men refused TO strike on the groun
that they did not sympathize with IN
Poles in their struggle. II seems that /
! that part Of Russia the people remembe
only too well the endless wars with IN
Poles, and cannot forget that the whit
| eagle OF Poland once waved from IN
. pinnacles of the Kremlin so sacred
Moscow. The possibility OF the revivs