Show A LABOR strike in Russia is a serious matter not for the employees but for the strikers A correspondent of the London Times sends an account of a strike which occurred a few weeks ago and how it was stopped The owners of some mills owing to the falling off in trade discharged a number of hands whereupon 1 ao workmen work-men surrounded tho managers and with threats of violence demanded that work should be provided for the usual number num-ber of men The police were called in who removed fifty of tho most clamorous men The others were confounded by the disappearance of their leaders and went back to work quietly They never knew what became of them but as a matter of fact they were taken to the salt mines of Cracow where they were scourged and ill treated till they sought refuge in death Thus the number of hands was reduced and fifty men dangerous to the government were removed |