Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-11-23
WoRkiNaMEN ARE BREAKING
LOOSE FROM CONTROL OF
LEADERS.
UNITE TO AID THE PREMIER
INTELLIGENT MIDDLE CLASSES
RALLYiNG TO SUPPORT OF
GOVERNMENT.

~. 1eLSiSDuiS, NOV. la lluCluy
in the Manchurian army is the latest
sensational rumor in this city.
According to the report the en-
peror has received dispatch from
Gen. Linevitch telling him OF revolt
among the troops, which was only
suppressed after regular fight, in
which many soldiers were killed or
wounded
Forty-two officers are reported to
have been shot for participation in the
conspiracy.
No confirmation of the rumor is OBJ
tainable from the officials of the war
(, Office.
May Abandon Strike.
Though according to surface indi-
cations yesterday the outlook for the
speedy ending of the strike was
gloomy, the revelations made at
meeting last night of council of the
workingmen's delegates, showed that
a large portion of the workingmen
were breaking loose from the control
of the leaders and were anxious to re-
turn to work, and a plebiscite, which
will be taken to-day in the various
factories, will probably result in de-
cision to abondon the strike Monday.
Tie Up Capital First.
The leaders, however, were deter
mined not to permit the strike to die
without a final great demonstration of
hot to Do4
dead city" After the adoption of
the resolution calling for a referen-
dunn, it was decided to bend every eff
fort to close every store, market and
office, beginning at IL O'clock this
morning, and to stop all street car and
carriage traffic in the streets so as to
bring the life of the Russian capital to
complete sfandstill.
The project of police has published
an appeal to the well disposed classes
warning them that the strike leaders
intend to take aggressive action to-
day and asking them to cooperate
with the police against the asitators
who are making life unbearable.''
I News From the Interior.
In the meeting the advocates of the
strike lai distress on encouraging
news from the interior which they
said they would be able to place be-
fore the workmen to-day, but last
nights dispatches showed little con-
firmatory evidence Of such news.
Work is being resumed at Moscow
and the news from other sections
shows that the call of the st. Peters
burg committee has awakened little
sympathy
The utterly reckless spirit mani
tested by the reds" who engineered
the present strike, is producing q
natural revulsion of feeling which il
shared by all classes of society. The
prospect Of
Anarchy and Mob Rule,
which would be the logical outcome
of the present demoralized conditions
in both the country districts and the
cities, has had SOLDERING influence.
The lower classes, who are always on
the verge of starvation, are growing
bitterly angry against the agitators,
who, by these continued strikes, are
taking the bread from their mouths,
and not only without being melted by
the police, but in spite of all the au-
thorities, these classes are threaten
ing reprisals.
4 1t is the intelligent middle classes,
however, which is beginning to rally
to the support Of the government in
its efforts to restore something like
order and
Public Tranquility.
Many of the Liberals who fought the
government actively before the proc
lamation of the emperor's manifesto,
I are now convinced that their leaders
Numbered frightfully by refusing to
lend their support to Count Witte in
his difficult task because he had de-
sclined to accept the unqualified con-
ditions laid down by them.
The new party of Law and Order,
which has latel ysprung into being,
with organizations in ST. Petersburg.
Moscow, the Baltic provinces, Astrah-
kan. Simferopol and elsewhere, the
principal plank in the platform of
which is the
Rallyins Of the Sober
and conservative forces of the nation
for the purpose ofl5attaining long ex-
! snpeeted liberties through cooperation
with Count Witte, is preaching that
all will be lost and the country
plunged into homeless bloodshed un-
! less the forces Of law and ORDER
unite to aid the premier 3
! TIE exodus of foreign residents who
! are afraid foreman during the winter
continues,