Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-21
STRIKE IN CzAR'S
EMPIRE COLLAPSES
Red" Are Preparing For a
Political Revolution.
100000 PEASANTS FACE FAMINE
While the Great Strike Failed to Mate.
rialize, Yet Russian Socialists Are
Preparing to Force Government to
Grant Their Demands.

St. Petersburg, Nov. 20.-With the
collapse Of the strike, the leaders of
the Reds" say they will now devote
their energies to the preparation of a
universal political strike to sustain
the revolutionary program when the
national assembly meets.
These plans which were suddenly up.
set by the precipitation of the railroad
strike last month, are exceedingly am
bilious involving the cooperation of
the Workmen in the cities and the peas
antry, and if possible, the army and
navy.
The propaganda among the soldiers
and sailors will be pushed energetic
ally. The leaders already claim that
they have organized tle peasantry in
five districts of Kharkoff province,
the peasants having agreed not to
work for the landlords when the strike
is called They anticipate that the
famine which is at the doors of almost
$4,000, 900 peasants of the central prov
fnces according to estimates, will
prove an effective ally of the agitation
as they promise to give the peasants
land to an unlimited extent. The
plague which is moving northward
from the Kirghiz steppes, if not
stamped out in the Vistula region, may
also be made to serve the purpose of
arousing the ignorant and supersti-
tiOus peasants The leaders will
urge the proletariat everywhere to Sc
cure arms and be prepared to fight for
their rights
Tine struggle in progress in the Mos
COW zemstvo congress is watched with
intense interest. The main question
to be decided is whether the zemstoH-
lists will cooperate with the govern
ment and on what terms.
The test probably will come upon
the resolutions to be offered by M. N.
Emirovesld, mayor of Saratoff, and
M, Kucheroff, mayor of Kharkoff, pro
posing cooperation with Count Witte
in the general pacifcation of tine coun-
try and the introduction of the reforms
with the understanding that the nation
al assembly will work out the detaIrs,
The men who are making a fight on the
necessity for supporting Count Witte,
urge that unless the country is tran,
quilted, the government will be forced
to return to reactionary measures,
From the dispatches received, how
ever, it is likely that even If the radi.
cal wing is out voted certain guaran-
tees will be demanded as the price of
cooperation of the zemstvoists. 1t is
significant that delegate to the zem-
stvo VINO presented himself as the rep
resentative of the Jewish population of
Wilma, Lithuania is included Many Lib
erals here believe that the congress is
sure to result in a split and that the
Radical wing standing on its insistance
upon constituent assembly and uni
versal suffrage will refuse all conneo-
ton with the government The plan
loudly discussed by the extremists
a fortnight ago of of turning the con,
gress into a constituent assembly ap,
pears to have fallen through.
While no further information has
been received regarding the reported
false emperor who was said to be
marching at the head of thousands of
peasants in the province of Pensa, the
turbulence there has become so threat.
ening that the government has placed
the province in a state Of siege.