Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-20
CALL FOR GENERAL
POLITICAL STRIKE.
Issued for One Throughout Rus.
STA to Begin Thursday
At Noon.
SIGNERS LIABLE TO ARREST.
Railway Unions Ready 20 Respond In
Principle but They Hesitate for
Practical Reasons.

ST. Petersburg, Dec. 90 eos a. MA
call for general political strike
throughout Russia, TO begin Thursday
at noon, was issued tonight The call
is approved by the Union OF Unions, the
Union of Peasants, the General Rail-
way union and the Councils Of Work
men OF 81. Petersburg and Moscow.
response received from the railroad
men Of Moscow Is unanimous for
strike. The leaders have declared their
ability to stop every train in Russia.
The strike order renders every mem.
Der Of the unions signing It liable to
arrest and punishment under the new
strike law, and Minister of the Interior
Durnovo attempted to telegraph orders
TO Moscow TO arrest members OF the
Railway union and OF the Workmen's
council, but the dispatches were held
up by the railroad photographers.
The members of the st. Petersburg
,ouIcii OF Workmen had been notified
Dy inc General Railway union and the
Moscow Council of Workmen that In
principle they We're ready for a strike.
but that they hesitated ON practical
grounds. The st. Petersburg leaders,
however felt that their prestige would
surfer severely unless they could answer
the governments determined offensive
win counter stroke while many who
We're committed TO full revolution Sc
cretly dreaded that the ground would
De swept from under their feet should
the government promulgate law
granting universal suffrage.
~ is expected that there will be diff
Guilty In enforcing general walk-out
on the eve Of the Christmas holidays.
when Russian workmen, especially the
railroad employees, are looking forward
10 the customary presents. which some
times amount to as much as one or two
months wages.
ENJOYS returning from the interior
reported that many OF the proletariat in
the provinces will not be ready for
struggle before January.
The committee of the League Of
Leagues the prominent members OF
which are momentarily expecting arrest
on account of the manifesto Issued by
the league this morning, were present
at the meeting of the Council of Work
men, as We're also several leading lights
OF the revolution, who are working des-
perately to coordinate all elements IN
struggle against the government
The printers of Moscow will strike
today but those of ST. Petersburg have
decided to strike only when ordered to
do so.
The police yesterday afternoon visited
the printing office in which the work.
mems papers were published Monday.
but the revolutionary printers had not
left the slightest evidence of their
work.
MOBs MURDER SOLDIERS.
Tukum, Courland. Russia, Sunday,
Dec. H. via Stettin. Prussia. Dec. 10
A STAFF correspondent of the Associated
Press who has just arrived here learns
that mobs of Lithuanlans and Esthom-
ians yesterday attacked hundred Co.'S
sacks and Dragons, the only military
force stationed In Tukum
The mobs after wild fighting, killed
the soldiers to the last man, cut off
their arms and legs and ripped their
bodies. The streets were strewn with
bodies and dismembered parts.
Six hundred troops arrived here this
morning with three guns. sheled the
place and charged the mob Of peasants,
who surrendered or were dispersed
onder has now been restored and the
soldiers are burying the bodies Of the
slain and caring for the wounded.
In all 40 soldiers and peasants We're
killed and many wounded.
Most OF the population has fed to
Riga, which Is now the safest town in |
this part Of Russia