Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-29
TELEGRApHERs ON STRIKE.
/, is Direct Outgrowth Of Gov.
eminent Prohibiting Them
To Join Union.
c,rdltlons at Scbustopol Unknown
The Slave, Which Supports Wittc,
Has Become Very Pessimistic.

81 Petersburg, Nov. ", lI'lo D. III
The situation has again suddenly grown
exceedingly grave. The Russian capt.
tal Is shut off from telegraphlo commu-
n,catlon with the interior. The pam
Russian strike of telegraph operators
declared yesi erday has gone into oper-
atlon and the workmen's council Is de-
uberatlng whether to declare a general
political strike throughout Russia to-
morrow, predicting this time the alleg-
Oh pnwarranted arrest of the members
Of the peasants congress at Moscow
and also calling on the people to conf
mel the employers at st. Petersburg,
who locked out 10000 men to open their
doors,
GOVT IN A BAD PLIGHT.
The telegraph strike draws an impen-
strable curtain between the capital and
the provinces which in such crisis
renders the position Of the government
almost desperate az being In instant
touch with the military and local au-
thorlties In the interior Is imperative.
II the telegraph strike can be main
tanned the government VIII be compell-
ed to grope blindly in the dark. The
employees of the office here have not yet
struck, but they are expected TO walk
ont today. Only two lines are working
out Of st. Petersburg. Telephone mes
sages from Moscow. which are momen-
tarlly expected TO stop, say that the
operators on the Siberian lines and on
all the lines south, north and east OF
Moscow have struck, communication
with Sebastopol ana Odessa has ceased
The operators on the lines throughout
the Baltic provinces have also struck.
WHY TELEGRAPHERs STRUCK.
The telegraphers' strike Is the direct
outgrowth OF the governments circular
prohibiting telegraph operators from
joining a union which prohibition is at
tributed to NJ DWoyno, minister of the
interior, for whose removal from office
the radicals are vigorously working.
The minister recently summarily dis
charged the leaders Of the Moscow
union and yesterday their colleagues
sent a l2-hour ultimatum TO NJ. Dur
noyo and Premier Witte. demanding the
reinstatement of the dismissed men
and the withdrawal of the obnoxious
circular, No answer being forthcom-
ing at the specified time the strike was
declared, The teegraphers of Moscow,
after leaving their keys, held a meeting
In an adjoining building and upon the
appearance of the police and the troops
sent 10 break up the meeting, they
declared firmly that they would not dis
perse even If the authorities used force.
sEBASTOPoL CUT OFF.
Sebastopol being cut OFF from tele-
graphic communication with the capi-
tai, It is not known here whether the
mutineers have surrendered or whether
Gen, Neptueff, the commander of the
fortress, began active operations against
them today. The last dispatch, which
came through, announced that Sebasto-
pol was practically deserted except for
the troops. The scared population
have fed In all directions. and Balkava
and neighboring town were filed with
refugees, The streets of Sebastopol
were reported as being flooded with in
coming troops and artillery and ma
chine guns had been placed as TO COM
mand Admiralty Point, the stronghold
Of the mutlneers, while the guns of Fort
Constantine had been trained on the
sailors barracks. Gen. Neptueff and
the other military officers, according to
the advlces, were consulting with the
View to working out a plan to take the
mutineers by siege and without blood
shed II possible. No further state
ment was made regarding the attitude
OF the Black Sea fleet A dispatch to
the Noyoe Vremya says that not more
than a thousand sailors are now sup
porting the leaders of the mutiny which
humber a hundred. The dispatch also
says that there are only 400 rifles In the
sailors barracks, and that only a few
cartridges are available.
THE sLAvo PEsSIMIsTIC.
The Slave, which Ia supporting Coun.
Wltte has become exceedingly pessim-
lstlc. 1t says that revolution constl-
tutes double danger. since every sue
cess Of the revolutIonists enables the
reyolutlonists to point out the danger of
continuing the reform program while
every turn Of the wheel backwards
stimulates the revolutionists to make
new attacks on the government"
The editor of the new pictorial satlral
paper Poulemet who was arrested Nov.
~ has been released. Writing his ex-
periences, he said he was arrested at
o'clock In the morning, that his apart
ments were rihed, and that he was held
FOR two days in prison in violation of
the inviolability Of person guaranteed
by the imT<rial manifesto. The public
prosecutor, however, found that the
editor had not committed any crime
and NJ. Durnovo was compelled TO order
his liberation. Yet this is called the