The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-10-27
STRIKES in RUSSIA
nine RAILROADS RADIATING OUT
OF MOSCOW Are CLOSED.
Commercial Heart Of Russia Cut Of
From Rest Of INSTRUMENTATION
lists Have Shown Their Ability
Factory Strike Looked For-Famine
Stricken District Cannot Get Relief.

Moscow, Oct. 24.-Traffic on seven
merce radiating from Moscow is COM
pletely paralyzed by the railroad
strike, and the commercial heart of
Russia has been shut off from all CON-
munication with the rest of the en-
pire, except with the narrow section
to the northwestward, including st.
Petersburg and the Baltic provinces.
Though the government has ordered
the railroad battalions of the army to
proceed to Moscow and take the places
of the strikers for the purpose of re-
storing traffic, the revolutionists. by
a sudden and unexpected blow, have
shown their ability to lay their hands
on the throat of the nations CONNER
,cial life.
The strikers forced the employees OF
the general Offices and financial depart
ments of three lines, the Windau and
Rybinsk, the Moscow and Brest-
Liovsk and the Kieff and veronese, to
quit work. The city is already feeling
the effects of a milk and meat famine,
and a few days continuance of the
strike will cause serious embarrass-
ment, and even suffering, to the popu-
lation. The renewal of the factory
strike is not improbable.
An important development Sunday
was the strike on the Brest-Liovsk,
which runs to Minsk and Warsaw and
carries international traffic from Mos
COW to Germany, Austria and other
parts Of Europe. The engineers and
firemen have drawn the fires and de
serted the engines. Communication
with points abroad, however, is still
open by way of st. Petersburg and
Pskoff.
During the morning a crowd OF
strikers proceeded to the freight sta
,tion of the Kursk road and let off the
steam of eight engines, drove away
the guards and forced the employees tt
stop work. The traffic over the roat
tthereupon stopped.
The strike, coming at this time, II
apt to seriously cripple the work o
relief in the famine stricken provinces
and also to impede the movement o
roads under normal conditions are no
able to keep the grain crop fnovinI
promptly. Official reports show tina
1S9,824 loaded cars were awaiting re
moval on October 20 in various sec
lions, and that the grain and coo
handling districts are daily increas
ing their accumulations at the raj
road stations.
Great suffering is certain If tn
supply Of grain and other provision
can not be forwarded into the famin
stricken districts, where, up to Tn
present, the work of relief had nc
been carried out successfully.
Later Report
st. Petersburg.-The railroad strik
situation has now entered on highi
serious phase. The movement !
spreading rapidly to all the railroad
of the empire, and apparently can nc
be stopped, while in many cities. 1t
communicating itself to the mill an
factory employees. The general strik
in all branches Of labor, which the 81
cialists planned for the end of thi
year is suddenly bursting forth OF II
own volition.
Minister of Finance Kokvosof ha
received a telegram from the govern
ing committee of the Moscow bours
which said that continuation of tn
strike for a week longer would fore
every factory in the Moscow region
shut down owing to lack of cos
whether or not the factory hands toe
part in the strike.