Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-18
ARE READY ID JOIN THE REVOLUTION|STS Constitutional Democrats Have Held Many Secret Sessions During
 The Past Week
OPEN RUPTURE DEBATED
Bakeries Are All Closed To-day as Strikers Threaten to Wreck
 The Shops.


 ititutional democrats seem almost ready to throw in their lot with the revolutionists. The popular agitation IS so great that at a caucus lasting three mornings the question of changing the party's tactics and abandoning any further attempt to postpone an open rupture with the government was seriously debated NM. Roditcheff and Naboukoff, lead- CTS of the constitutional democrats in the lower house, led the radical wing, urging the absolute necessity of keep ing pace with the revolutionary movement and insisting that unless they moved forward to battle imme- diately they would be overwhelmed and left stranded. Professor Milu- koff, M. Vinarver and others counsel cd caution, saying it was not yet time to bend to the storm, but the radi- calls were in the majority. The Novoe Vremya to-day says that the consti- tutfonal democrats have actually re- solved to break with the government within few days. but that Struve, editor of the Osvobojdenie informed the Associated Press that no decision had been taken. He admitted, how ever, that the leaders plans were se- cret. Many of the liberals fear a rup- ture and regard the contemplated step as grave error, claiming that the constitutional democrats cannot hope to keep step with the advanced radicals, who at meetings held in the suburbs of St Petersburg last night. not only condemned the lower house Of parliament and characterized the constitutional democrats as traitors, but even denounced the Group of Toll. M. Alladin was hissed because he tried to explain the absurdity of the contention that the house must demand that the emperor summon constituent assembly. The meeting refused to listen to his statement that the government could not be asked to sign it's own death warrant. Con- stituent assemblies, he said, were constituted and not summoned by the government. The orators at the meet ings glorified the coming dictatorship of the proletariat and cheered tho cries, of Down with the government and the middle classes!"
 The bakeries continue closed to- day, the strikers threatening to wreck the shops where attempts were made to bake bread. Little hardship, however. has thus far resulted. The lower classes were warned and sup piled themselves with black bread in advance. The strike of the bakers is to be followed in few days by butchers strike.
 The news from the interior shows that the wave of strikes is spreading, but 1t Is too early to tell whether this movement. which seems more spontaneous than organized. will pre- cipltate crisis. New strikes are re- ported at Yekaterinoslav, at Saratoff and at the colonies of Bolonuth.
 The usual number of robberies are reported to-day. emphasizing the growing lawlessness and anarchy in train robberies in the Caucaus and three stage coaches were held up in Poland. A case of arms and 5000 cartridges have been confscated at Riga on an incoming steamer.
 The government seems to fear a repetition of the November mutiny | at Cronstadt fortress, where the sail DTS and marines and the soldiers and | workmen are reported to be ex- tremely turbulent. Two infantry regi- | ments have been hastily dispatched | 10 Cronstadt from Krasnoye Selo. | nineteen miles southeast of St Peters burg, and two batteries of artillery | of the guard and two machine gun batteries have been sent there from nineteen miles west of st Petersburg. The streets of Cron- stadt are filled with troops and tho vell-to-do inhabitants are hurriediy | leaving the Island on which the town b situated.