The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-02-02
Chicago American

those strikers who are Indifferent to
political demands, and which class
they declare constitutes great bulk Of
the men, to resume work.
knowledge of the existence of the
proclamation was not general among
the workmen until they read it on the
bulletin boards, where many Of them
angrily turned away, muttering re-
fusals to listen to the government
promises. Others appeared to hesitate
regarding what course to pursue. The
workmen appear TO lack leadership.
If, as the authorities believe, the ma
jority of the worlimen resume work
and then the only thing feared is Il
recrudescence of bomb-throwing. The
government is also encouraged by the
comparative quiet at Moscow. and they
hope no serious trouble will occur
there.
Dispatches from London to the As
sociated Press say that the British
foreign Office and the press take a
gloomy view of the situation and that
in the exaggerated dispatches printed
there is revealed the poorly disguised
hostility of England to Russia.
The Russian government is striving
to convince the world that the up
heaval In st. Petersburg is Nihilistic.
1t is also striving to convince the Rus
sian mOderates that the Industrial re-
volt is being encouraged by Russia s
arch enemies. England and Japan.
The situation, industrial and politi-
cal, is beset with unusual difficulties
for the Russian government. 1t is
authoritativeiy reported that so per
cent of the capital invested in the
great manufacturing and kindred ven
lures of Russia is foreiSn-coming
mainly from France, Germany and
England.
The foreign capitalists have their
own superintendents and managers in
the manufactures, Russia furnishing
the workers. 1t is claimed, on one
hand, that the Russian government has
not been fair to the manufacturers,
and ON the other that the foreign EN-
ployers have been merciless in their
treatment of Russian employees.
Even General Trepoff, recently ap-
pointed Governor General of st. Pc
tersburg, was accused in the Moscow
strike Of two years ago of fayOring the
Russian worker against the manufac-
turer. At all events. Russian senti-
ment in the aggregate is favorable to
the workers now Oh Il strike.
Again. the workingmen and the
peasants have been misled by agi-
tators, who have appealed to them as
agents of the Car. These pretended
agents have told workingmen and
peasants that it was only necessary for
them TO make certain demands. and
they would be granted. because the
Gear would support them. More Sc
riouS than this, many of the mobiles
claim to have had assurance that the
Gar would not regard unfavorably pc
dtions for reforms in administration.
1t may not be difficult to suppress
the revolt, for the time being. but it
will be difficult to check the movement
for q constitution, which has been
gaining force since 1856. The consti-
tutiOnalists do not expect everything
to be done in day. They are will
ing to be patient, but they want assur-
ances Of progress. II such assurances
are given in good faith the situation
will be greatly improved.
At Saratoff the men in the railway
shops and other establishments havv
gone out. but no disorder is reported.
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