Show HESITATED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS ix the members of tho st petersburg council of workmen had been notified by the general railway union and the moscow council of workmen that in principle they were ready tot a strike but that they re on political grounds the st petersburg leaders owner felt that thear prestige would suffer severely unless they could answer the governments determined offense would be a counterstroke while many who were committed to full revolution dreaded that the ground would be swept from under their feet should the government promulgate a law granting suffrage it is expected that there will be difficulty effecting a general walkout on the eve of the christmas holidays when russian workmen especially the railroad employed emp loyes are looking forward to tho customary presents which some throes amount to as much as one or two months pay envoys returning from the interior are reported as saying that many of in the provinces will not bo ready for struggle before january the committee of tho league 0 leagues the prominent members of which ara momentarily expecting arrest on account of the issued this morning were present at the meeting at the council 0 workingmen aseere alao several lights of the revolution who are working desperately to coordinate all elements in a struggle against the government the printers of moscow will strike today hut those of st petersburg have decided to strike only when ordered to do so the police yesterday evening visited the printing office in which the workmen papers were published monday but the revolutionary printers had not left the slightest evidence of their work |