Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-06
initiates Against Success
Of General Strike.
Railroad Men Afraid and TeIe.
graphers Refuse to Go Out.
Telegraphie Communication Between Odessa
and Sehastopol Interrupted.

ST. Petersburg, Aug. G.-The fate of
the general strike which, although it
has affected close to 10000 men in ST.
Petersburg, has met with only slight
response in other sections of Russia,
probably will be decided today with an
adverse oppression of public opinion.
The lack of union among the leaders
of the proletariat organizations is play
ing against the success of the move
ment.
The railroad men. upon whom the
success of the movement depends, still
are working full time.
The leaders of the railroad organiza-
tions are hesitating about issuing a call
for tie-up. They fear being deserted
and diScredited by their materialiStic
followers, who are no more responsive
to the vowed pretext of this strike,
namely, sympathy with the mutineers
! of Sveaborg. Cronstadt and Reveal, than
| they were to the similar reasons given
| for the abOrtive strike of last Noven-
her The railroad men have been in
| Inundated by the recent making of
strikes affecting commune atoms a pen
al offense. The laws providing severe
punishment were enacted with direct
| 10 general StIIhco
| The Council of Workmen'S Deputies,
which met secretly at Terioki, Finland,
continued it's session till late hour
yesterday morning. The deputies We're
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 transpOrta-
ton service to a Standstill. Repre-
sentatives of all the Revolutionary par
ties and emissares from Moscow
Kieff. Riga. Odesse and other cities
We're present at the meeting. The
telegrap piers thus far have bene appeal
ed to in vain. The final meeting. of Ihs
council is still proceeding at 100 this
morning.
The first break In the ranks of the st
Petersburg strikers occurred yesterday
when the printers decided to return t
work. The employees of several street ca
} lines and river ferries have resumed
, work.
, | a steady downpour Of rain all day Ion;
prevented the open air gatherings sched
uled for the day in st. Petersburg an
the consequent possibility of collision
and disorders.
, The day was without incident cxcer
for the departure for Cronstadt of tn
18th Naval Eauipage. There was larg
| number of drunken men among thes
= sailors.
kilograms from the interior throw lii
tie light Oh the manner in which tn
=, | country may be expected to respond I
:, todays call for strike.
There has been no cessation in tn
number of robberes and murders in til
;, interior The government attaches niue
inheritance to the declaration of the Pole
in the Minsk conference against the prir
, c!ple of appropriation and in favor of a.
ouIescing in the dissolution of the Low.
House This action lis regarded in az
ministrative circles as almost equivalel
Ito the withdrawal of the propertit
classes Of Poland from the Russian rev
- dictionary movement.
u The Novoe Vremya, which Is the on
newspaper appearing except in dodg
FORM devotes a large portion of its spa'
u this morning to an article prophesyir
: war between Japan and the United Stat
u and predicting n sure and speedy victor
y and the seizure of the Philippines ar
Hawaii.
, A collision between strikers and polio
u men occurred at the railroad station
Sestreretsk. a suburb of St. Petersbur
at s o'clock Saturday night. one pohc
man was killed. The garrison at Sc
!, treretsk has been further increased