The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-09-08
RUSSIANS PLANNING
MAMMOTH STRIKE
Will Be Launched By Worbmen
on Coming Election Day.
2o,ooo,o 900 MEN ARE TO STRIKE
Greatest Movement of lis Kind in Ali
History-Workirg Men Urged to
Save Pennies to Buy Weapons Fer
Coming Struggle.

SOhinS SIu99iS.
New York, Sept. 5.-The New York
section Of the Social Democratic par
" has received a manifesto issuei
by the central committee of the So
cial Democratic Labor party of Rus
STA that it is making preparations for
the greatest strike known on earth
More than 2O,OO0,OO0 working people
are to be involved. The strike is to
go into effect in the general election
in Russia when the representatives
for the national assembly will be
chosen.
The proposed DOuma is denounced
by the working people as the merest
caricatuTe of a national assembly.
The party manifesto is addressed
Ito all those who are robbed of their
rights AMI it proposes general
strike a.. over the country at the
time of the elections and the choice
OF representatives by the great num-
berS whom the cars edict disfran-
chises. 1t is proposed that the
strikers go to the capital and con-
front the delegates of privileged
classes.
The Manifesto.
The manifesto says in part:
You all remember. citizens, the
cars promise of Feb. Is. After stub
boTnly refusing for years to listen TO
the appeals for a change in political
conditions, then declared his intention
70 call upon men trusted by people.
The moment is approaching for the
fuldllment of that promise for this
new favor bestowed by the car upon
the people. 1t will be glorified in
various terms by the hirelings whose
duty is to deceive the people. The
ministers have deliberated over Min
ister Buligin's projects, AMI soon this
plan of a state council sanctioned by
the cars signature will become a
law. And this new law will be moth
ing more or less than a deadly insult
to the people.
Year after year have the work
ingmen of all nationalities which in
habit tne Russian empire struggled
against the hated autocracy. Year
after year have they demanded free
dom, demanded that the people should
control the state; wOrkingmen's blood
has flowed in torrents for this end.
and nov when the cars government
has at last felt compelled to call to-
getfer representatives of the nation
it has denied the working class any
right 10 choose their own spokesman.
In word, this GOsudarstvenaia
Donna will be "a misrepresentation
body. Such assembly viii, allow all
the prevailing atrocities to continue
Only representative assembly
chosen by universal, equal. direct and
secret suffrage will be able to reach
those wrongs and bring in a new or
de-. That is why millions of the
to;iing masses have been excluded
from tie franchise. in order that rea,
liberty may not be inaugurated
A Solid Protest.
F. of all. you should reply ali
over M land with general and
solid protest against the denial OF the
peoples rights. Answer the czar with
q general strike.
Let not chimney smoke, let not
a factory I'm. let not a store be KEEP
open. let nur az cSHe conduct its
business while the elections proceed.
Cabs, trOiIeys, railroads. steamers
let them all stand still
Drop your work. Do not make any
special demand of your employers.
Tell them that this time you are OF
strike against the cars government