The Jersey City news., 1906-08-07
APPEAL TO RUSSIANS
Revolutionary Leaders Cali on
Them to Overthrow Imperial
Government.
GENERAL STRIKE A FlAsco.

Order to Go Out Received Without En-
thusiasm - Railroads Not Affected.
Thousands Fly From Odessa, In Which
City Mutiny is Feared = Police Spy
Assassinated.
ST. Petersburg, Aug. 7.-"Citizens, all
to whom freedom is dear, we call upon
you for a decisive struggle against the
government of the czar for a represent
ative government, for land and liberty;
we cali upon you to Join in general
strike to overthrow the imperial gov
ernment and the authorities defending
them Hurrah for a general strike and
a decisive battle for power for the peo-
ple.'
These are the closing words of an ap
peal to the country issued jointly by
the Social Democrats and Labor mem
bers of the dismissed douma commit
tees of Poles and Jews and various
avowedly revolutionary bodies.
General Strike Failure.
In the light Of developments the gen
eral strike may almost be regarded as
a flasco The summons to go out has
met some response in Moscow, where
the printers and the street car men and
part of the employees of the gas, water
and electric light plants quit work, but
these are more than offset by the de
fection in st. Petersburg.
An enthusiastic acceptance to the or
der to strike is nowhere recorded. Even
In the Donetz mining district, where
practically all the miners already were
out, the factory hands have declined to
strike
The reyolutionists may possibly yet
be saved by the railroad men, but the
central committees of the railroad men
have not yet reached a final decision,
and up to the present time, in spite of
the frantic efforts of the agitators, not
a single line of the empire is affected.
Powder Makers Strike.
Fifteen thousand employees of the
government powder mills have struck,
but this is counterbalanced by the re-
turn of the men of the Westinghouse
and other factories.
1t transpires that the printers of ST.
Petersburg instead of abandoning the
strike entirely have decided to print
only one Liberal newspaper a day.
This, however, really plays into the
hands of the government as the Novoe
Vremya and the Svet, the two Conserv-
ative journals, are wealthy enough to
defy the union and resume publication
in unabridged form. The compositors
on the Official Messenger joined the
strikers, but they were at once replaced
by military printers
The organizers of the strike are in
despair over the prospects of failure
Some already counsel calling the strike
off in an effort to save prestige, but the
majority is waiting in the last hope for
some action on the part Of the railroad
men.
Mutiny Feared In Odessa.
Reports from Odessa say that fully
10000 persons have left Sevastopol and
| the exodus continues Admiral Skryd-
| loft, commander of the Black sea feet,
| is afraid to order the breech locks re
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the crews of the warships mutiny, and
| yet he distrusts the fortress artillery
| men. At the fortress and on the war
ships double staffs of officers keep
watch with cooked revolvers in their
hands.
At Odessa the troops are showing un-
mistakable signs of unrest, and the au-
thorities are taking the most stringent
| measures to prevent mutiny. Numer-
GUS patrols surround the military camp,
no stranger is admitted, and the sol
| diers are watched lncessantly
A police agent in whose pocket was
| found a list of twenty revolutionaries
whom he had denounced was killed in
| Odessa