Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-03-26 | Page 16 | Thousands Locked Out

THOUSANDS LOCKED OUT. Industrial Problem in Russia Enters Upon Difficult Stage. ST. PETERSBURG, March 2C Tho Industrial In-dustrial problem In SL Petersburg again entered on a difficult stage, tho owners of many factories having. In1 consequence of continued backing and filling by their employees, decided to close down their works chtlrely. locking out 30.CO0 men. The Idle workmen are in an ugly frame of mind. The muchlnery In ono of tho big cotton mills wns wrecked yesterday und disorder is in the air. Trouble Is expected, ex-pected, and It Is believed the wilder spirits spir-its are now not without bombs and other weappns of defenso and reprisal. Guard oftlcors continue to receive warnings warn-ings that they will sign their death warrants war-rants If they order the troops to tire, and a Social Democratic propaganda of demonstration dem-onstration and disturbance Is evident. The proprietors of the cotton mills and woolen mills, which have been operating on tho smallest possible margin of prollt. are generally planning to pay off and discharge their employees, trying, with the aid of the authorities, to send them back to the village. It Is openlv stated among the workmen that the lighting wing of tho Social revolutionists revo-lutionists has passed scntenco of death on thirty high personages, the list being headed with tho namo of Grand Duko Alexis and ending with that of tho Emperor, Em-peror, and bearing also tho name of the Dowager Empress.