Show DARK TIMES AHE AHEAD D evolutionary Element to Join Rus Russian sian Gian Strikers St Petersburg Feb 1011 p mSt Is again face to face with renewal or of the labor upheaval the incitement being the failure r the workmen to secure payment for forie le ie time they were out on strike added the fact that there has been no ad of the demands which led to toe toS S e strike last month The iron works where the thermer riner strike originated is playIng the part There are work len en already out within the metropolis and workmen at the torpedo at eIghteen miles mUes dis dist t 1 have bave joined the strikers There Is strong prospect or of the movement ex cx exon on Police VIgilant Only energetic measures by the 1 oops and DoUce prevented the re toda today of the former t f the strikers marching from factory factory and inducIng or 01 compelling to lay down their tools Thus tr lr there has been no disorder In St but the authorities appear ha have e Ute the situation well wall in hand band in Inus us respect It is generally believed tat at such precautions ha have e been taken Ill preclude the repetition of the of Tan Jan 22 HowEver circumstantial reports that C revolutionary element Is about to IT wIth the strIkers and resort to tomb mb throwing are causing grave ap rE Th workmen today held a 3 number orderly meetings in open fields and andi i ig assemblages are scheduled for tor to Crisis Expected Sunday Sunday will be the crucial time The of the workmen is distinctly than it was three weeks ago agor r they are arf without money while the are not repeating the mis the o underestImating tle gravIty of tn hr br neglecting Father organization still sUll ex cx exl l as hut but s secretly and H is less e On the other hand the thc employ 8 realize the thc importance ot or a prompt tt 1 eu Cn t or of the worl mens n nce but have hae allowed weeks to sUp slip y without decIding on combined ac acon acon on A few have made concessions Ut at the majorIty have refused assert Is ig that to allow the demands of the n would mean bankruptcy for tor 1 w employers und and thc they have resigned to the care of the govern C t rhy y appear to think the govern 1 lit is trIn trying to make them shoulder 1 it onus OflUS of settling a politIcal and have hap appointed a committee to raw up a to Finance Minis 4 ter settinG forth the position that the governments persIstent ef efforts efforts forts to conciliate the men have not home borne the expected fruit and that the anger anser caused b by the events of Tan Jan 22 has been augmented by the delay in settling their grievances Ripe For Mischief Reports from many factories show that the hands are ripe for tor trouble and likely to strike Father organization is re reported reported ported to have appointed delegates to request Gov Governor General to permit the workmen to send another representative delegation to see the emperor and present a pro gramme or of labor reforms and In ease case of refusal al or of this request to repeat the attempt to march to the palace square But there Is no confirmation of this re repOrt report pOrt and It is doubtful whether the men can clin be induced to re reenact reenact enact their part In the tragedy or of orTan Tan Jan 22 The Tho dispute at the tho iron ironwork work center in the question or hours i Thu Th men since tho resumption ot of work I there ha have vo been QUitting at the end of I elgh hou The Tho manager offered a prop proportIonate reduction ot of theIr pay and yesterday esterday posted notices threat threatening ening dismissal It if the men did not work the tho regular time ten and a half hours Tore Down the Notices The Tho men mer toro tore down the notices and this morning delIvered their ul ultimatum uma tum oZ eIght hours hourn with no reduction or of wage vage The manager manage refused t con I cc e the tho demand and the entire works were deserted within one hoUr The strikers Induced the tho es ot of a I neighboring chemical works and a sugar factory actor to join them and the car works 3 anti nd other establIshments in inthe the neighborhood are already idle The Tho accessions to the tho ranKs ranna ot of the I strikers have r reduced to idleness the entire region between n the and the gates except the Russo American Rubber work and one other I facto factory The scenes scene in those thos ot of the tho troublesome times In January I Co Cossacks acks on Hand Strong StronE forces of Cossacks and mounted pOlice during th day about the strike regIon or stood at ease case beside their horses horseD at points where here trouble o wan tag expected and Infantry and marines plodded about tho roads ankle deep in a sharp thaw with ain having set In last night Strong guards gUarda nt t princIpal roads prevented strikers passIng out In bodies to proselyte the workmen of other quarters quarter The workmen have been orderly and the tho troops troop have hao kept the tho roar roads clear but have not molested gr ot of workmen In the tho fields A largo large gathering was ivan held near the Moscow gate but beyond the reading 0 of editorIals am and other articles front from Liberal papers nothing was done Men Keep Sober st noticeable feature was the absence o of drunkenness In iii the course courso or of a three thre bourn hourn drive through the strike quarters not more than a dozen men under the influence of liquor Were vere seen and the strikers arc aro to have around I A large group or of strikers striker near the Iron works poured out the story ot of their grievances grievance to the news I pap paper r correspondents tho pOlice pOlicemen policemen men standing by l did not Interfere I Wo 0 are 1110 absolutely starving but we wc weare are determined not to return to work until our d aTe are granted they adding sarcastically Those I OOOO o Japanese gold Old must have I gone astra 0 fa fallen n Into the tho hands of Sm t The men are fre deeply angered against 1 z Rumors oi an assault on him and hi bi departmental I and or of the killing o of spies m ar but bu the strikers themselves ignorance of oC an any such affaIrs A policeman who has han been for many yearn on beat confessed to today today day that he be had never neer seen the men In such uch an ugly mood for which he students who he said are In InI incIting dUne cIting them to attack th the works I Riotous Students Student demonstrations In the In evidence ot of their re refusal ual to resume their studies until reforms are an instituted InStitute d forebOde the a at ac t ve participation ot of students in the present strIke the tho workmen in the C quarter were res resorting to a strike to settle theIr grievances the tho em lo es esin in a small factory woi a victory on I the thc strIke pR pay question today toda b by re resorting sorting Ortin t to the tho T They he sued the I manage for Cor strike pay and got a vor ble er ic I i |