New-York tribune., 1907-08-02
STRIKE FIGHTS IN LODI.
Thirty Casualties an One-Mdy BE
Start of Nee Labor UGr.

Lodz. Russian Poland. Aug This city is
again the scene OF strike movement, accom-
panied by violence, disorder and death Ihe
troops have encountered the strikers IN the
centre of the town and some thirty men We're
killed wounded in the fight alone BUSINESS
is at standstill and fears are entertained OF
what the dav may bring forth The trouble
came to a head yesterday. and in spite OF the
aggressive stand taken by the authorities the
disorders began again early this morning, as
this dispatch is filed.
The strike is serious: it would appear to be the
beginning of a big labor war, and the work
mems unions prepared for long struggle
The immediate cause Of the outbreak yesterday
the course pursued by the police during lhe
last eight days in making a large NUMBER OF
arrests in attempts to break up the unions
The principal Socialist leaders have been thrown
into Jail The police have been so energetic in
,hair measures against the unions that they
have united the Social Democrats the Polish
Socialists and the Nationa1lsts, parteS Which
up to the present time have been wagins mer-
Ciess war, accompanied by daily huroe'S anu
outrages. among themselves
: general strike has beeh declared, and the
Social Democrats and the Polish Socialists nave
called thirty-two thousand men Inc Ma
tfonalisrs have been forced to join the commit
tee of the amalgamated unions The commit
tee has ordered that all business in Lodz cease.
stores have been told close, and the power
house of the electric traction system has been
s,,It down The committee is enforcing its
orders with armed mon. and several shopkeepers
who refused to close their places have been
shot.
Yesterday bands Of Iahorers were sent out IN
tho cIrv 20 wreck streetcars. This they did IN
number of cases ard later they used the cars
as harriCades from which to stone the police
T,,rine rhe calling out of the strikers one fac
tory foreman and shopkeepers were killed
and two lahorers were mortally wounded
The disorders grew the day wore on AT
o'clock in the afternoon the military forces
z-are r7ohilized. but there no engagement
with the Hvorknaen until o'clock last night At
this hour the opposing forces came together in
,he centre Of the town The fighting was seri-
or,s and prolonged The workmen fired several
hundred shots from automatic pistols and did
no1 disperse until they had been charged by
cavalry At least thirty men were killed or
wounded Ambulances at once cleared the
streets Of the dead bodies. Among the dead is
German subject
The town was patrolled constantly last night
hv detachments Of CossaCks and Dragons
This morning the troops started the electriN
cars again hut the passengers on board were
attacked bv gangs Of workmen and a number
of them were wounded. The strikers to-day are
bepinning 10 attempt to force a cessation or
work I-p to the present time they have not
been successful
St Petersburg. Aug SERIOUS agrar1an diS-
orders have broken out in the government or
Voronezh where the peasants have burned down
eleven estates The local country gendarmerle
have heen unable TO quel the riots and a punl-
tive Cossack expedition has been sent out from
the Capital Noronezh.