The San Francisco call., 1906-08-06

M. PETERSBURG. Aug. 6.-The
fate of the general strike, which,
\ J although it has affected close to
10000 men in st. Petersburg, has
met with only slight response in other
sections of Russia, probably Will De
decided today with an adverse express
sion of public opinion. The lack OF
union among the leaders of the prole-
tariat organizations is playing against
the success of the movement. The rail-
road men, upon whom the success or
the entire movement depends, are still
working full time. The leaders OF the
railroad organizations are hesitating
about issuing call for tie-up
They fear being deserted and dis
credited by their materialist1c Hollow
ers, who are no more responsive to the
avowed pretext of this strike, namely
sympathy with the mutineers or Svea-
borg, Cronstadt and Reval, than they
were to the similar reason given Tor
the abortive strike of last November
The railroad men have been intimidated
by the recent making of strikes affect
ing communications a penal onense
The law having severe punishment was
enacted with direct reference to gem
eral strikes.
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK.
The Council of Workmen's deputies,
which met secretly at Terioki, Finland,
continued its session till late hour
yesterday morning. The deputies were
so incensed at the timidity displayed
by the railroad men that they DECIDED
to resort If necessary to the blowing up
of bridges and the destruction of the
roadbeds. etc, to bring the transpor-
tation service to a standstill. REPRE-
sentatives of all the revolutionary par
ties and emissaries from Moscow, k1en,
Riga, Odessa and other cities were pres
ent at the meeting. The telegraphers
thus far have been appealed to in vain.
The final meeting of the council still is
being held at 1:30 o'clock this morning
The first break in the ranks of the
ST. Petersburg strikers occurred yester-
day, when the printers decided to re-
turn to work. The employees of sew
eral street car lines and river ferries
have resumed work.
A steady downpour of rain all day
long prevented the open-air gatherings
scheduled for the day In st. Peters
burg and the consequent possibility of
collisions and disorders. The day was
without incident except for the de-
parture for Cronstadt of the Eighteenth
naval equipage There was large
number of drunken men among these
soldiers.
MANY MURDERS IN INTERIOR.
Telegrams from the interior throw
little light on the manner in which the
country may be expected to respond to
the days call for a strike. There has
been no cessation in the number of
robberies and murders in the interior.
The Government attaches much i'm
portance to the declaration OF the
Poles In the Minsk Congress against
the principle OF appropriations and
in favor of acQuiescing in the dis
solution of the lower house and pre-
pairing for new elections. This action
is regarded in administration circles as
almost equivalent to the withdrawal of
the propertied classes of Poland from
the revolutionary movement.
The Novoe Vremya, which is the only
newspaper appearing except in dodger
form, devoted a large portion of its
space this morning to an article proph-
esying war between Japan and the
United States and predicted a sure and
speedy Japanese victory, the seizure
of the Philippines and Hawaii and the
occupation by the Japanese of Califor-
MIA.
collision between strikers and po-
licemen occurred at the railroad station
at Sestroresk, a suburb of st. Peters
burg, on Saturday night. One police
man was killed.
The garrison at Sestoresk has been
further increased.