The Jersey City news., 1906-08-06
RUSSIAN STRIKE LAGS
Call For General Cessation of
Work Little Needed Outside
of St. Petersburg.
RAILROADS STILL RUNNING.

Failure of Trainmen to Obey
to Quit to Be Followed by
Up of Roadbeds-Trouble Rumored
at Odessa and SevastopoI-czar Talks
About Autos.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 6.-The fate Of
the general strike, which, although it
has affected close to 10000 men in ST.
Petersburg, has met with slight re-
sponse in other sections of Russia,
probably will be decided with an adj
verse expression of public opinion. The
lack of union among the leaders of the
proletariat organizations Is working
against the success of the movement.
The number of strikers in st. Pc
tersburg is officially estimated at 66,-
155.
The railroad men, upon whom the
success of the entire movement de-
pends. are still working full time.
So angry are the delegates from the
labor unions now in secret session in
Terioki, Finland, at the backwardness
of the railway employees in Joining the
strike that they have decided to blow
up bridges and destroy roadbeds, IL
necessary, to bring railway traffic to
standstill. Representatives of ell the
revolutionary parties and emissaries
from Moscow, Kiev, Riga, Odessa and
other cities are present at the confer
ence.
Break In Capitals Strike.
The first break in the ranks of the
ST. Petersburg strikers occurred when
the printers decided to return to work
The employees Of several street car
lines and river ferries have resumed
work. A steady downpOur of rain pre-
vented open air gatherings in st. Pc
tersburg and the consequent possihili-
ty of collisions and disorders.
In defiance of the governor generals
proclamation threatening "extraordi-
nary measures" if any more Of the
Donets miners should quit work $500
men of the Monagova pits struck after
Cossacks had broken up their meeting
and whipped three miners to death.
Soldiers have been detailed to pump
out the flooded mines.
The stables, granaries and Touring
mill on the estate of Princess Chap
litsky, near Poltava, have been de-
| stroyed by incendiaries.
A street car conductor at Ekaterino-
! slav was arrested for reading to his
| passengers, among whom were several
soldiers, accounts of the Sveaborg
muttny.
Trouble In South Russia.
Governor General Kaulbars has not
| returned to Odessa from Sevastopol.
| Communication between those cities
has been cut for over forty-eight hours.
! Flashlight signals were exchanged be-
| tween the roof of the commandant's
residence at Odessa and a torpedo boat
destroyer a few miles at sea. There
upon the destroyer started at full speed
| toward Sevastopol Rumors are thick
| of trouble in the Odessa garrison.
The race war between Tartars and
| Armenians at Shusha began afresh
with greater force, and the slaughter
| still continues.
Baltic land owners in convention at
| Riga adopted a resolution favoring the
sale of crown and church lands and
the gradual appropriation of estates in
excess of fixed maximum, no peasant
| family owning more than fifty acres
| to get land under this system. Until
now the Baltic nobility has opposed
| eXpropriating land
Say Japs VIII Whip us.
The Novoe Vremya, which is the only
newspaper appearing except in dodger
form, devoted a large portion of its
i space to an article prophesying war be-
tween Japan and the United States
and predicting a sure and speedy Jap
anese victory, the seizure of the Philip
| pines and Hawaii and the occupation
by the Japanese of California.
prominent member of the govern
ment, who is in complete sympathy
with the decision taken at Peterhof to
! fight the revolution energetically,
| points out that the workmen's unions
are without funds to carry on pro-
| tracted struggle and he was disposed,
like many of his class, to contend that
! the real power behind the scenes are
| the rich Jews, who are interested in
striking a blow at Russian credit,
which would compel the government to
come to terms on the Jewish question.
Gear Talks About Motoring.
Prince Nicholas Lvoff, who saw the
emperor during the negotiations with
Premier Stolypin looking to the princes
entering reorganized ministry, gives
q remarkable account Of the interview.
He says his majesty in the midst of
the princes explanation of the extreme
gravity of the situation interrupted
him and questioned him regarding the
condition of the roads in Saratov prov
ince for motoring. Later the emperor
said he was certain the army was per-
fectly loyal to him.
Alexander Guchkoff, member Of
the Octoberist party. whose name has
been mentioned in connection with the
makeup of the proposed reorganized
cabinet, announced In Moscow that the
negotiations for the formation Of a
n0nbureaucratic ministry were broken
off. Premier Stolypin declining to in
stitute immediate reforms.
Russian Road Declines Freights.
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