The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-07
GENERAL STRIKE LOOKS
 LIKE GENERAL FIASCO
ITS ONLK POSSIBLE HOPE NDw IS FROM RAILROAD
 MEN

Russian RevoIutionists Frantic ovar
 Lack of Response to T4.cir oraa,>
 Many WorImen Go Gut But Tnis in
 Offset by the Many That Go BacyOa.
 Government Strikes Hard R,ovv ..
 Movement by Casting Into Jail nfesn-
 bers of the Central Committee of
 RevOlutfOnists.
 St. Petersburg, Aug. 7.-3:3O a. m.-In the light of yesterdays developrnents the general strike may almost be re- garded as fasco. The summons to go out has met some response In Mos COW, where the printers and stTeet car men and part of the employees of the gas, water and electric light plants quit work, but these are naore than offset by the defeotions in St. Peters. burg. An enthusiastic response to the order to strike Is nowhere recorded.
 The rewolutionists may possibly yet be saved by the railroad men but the central committee of the railroad men have not yet reached final decision and up to the present time. fin spite of the frantic efforts of the agitators, not single important line of the empire is affected.
 The line to Irinoff, upon which trains stopped last evening, is not important.
 Fifteen thousand employees of the government powder mills struck yes- terday but this was counterbalanced by the return of the men of the Westang- house and other factories who have mo- tif1ed their superintendents that they would begin work to-day.
 It transplres that the printers of St. Petersburg instead of abandoning the strike entirely, have decided to print only on eliberal newspaper day, This. however, really plays into the hands of the government, as the Novo Vrenlya and the Svet, the two conservative journals, are wealthy enough to defy the union and resume publication to-, morrow in unabridged form The com positors of the Official Messenger join dthe strikers yesterday, but they were at once replaced by military printers.
 The organizers of the strike are n1 despair over the prospects of failure Some already counsel calling the strike off in order to save prestige, but the majority is waiting in the last hope for some action on the part of the railroad men.
 Except for the dispersal of several minor gatherings by Cossacks, who used their whips and mounted police St. Petersburg yesterday was almost quieter than in ordinary times.
 The prefect of police has issued a long proclamation which was circulated among the lower classes, explaining the governments reasons for the diapersaI of the lower house of parliament. This act, it is declared, does not signify the suppression of representative institu- tions but is intended to give the people an opportunity eonscientiously to choose deputies to the new parliament who will cooperate with the govern ment in solving the problems upon which the welfare of the country de- pends.
 It became evident late yesterday aft ernoon that the government had prac- tjca1lv sucpeedpd in nr1lchincr tha s,,.eroy, :, ' ization of the strike leaders here. The members of the central committee of the social democrats were captured and put in prison in the early part of the day and the greatest confusion now prevails in the revolutionist camp.