OCR Text |
Show B STRIKE IS Movement Apparently Lacks Spontaneity! of Last (ireat Walk-Ont. TIE-UP IN ST. PETERSBURG IS NOTABLY COMPLETE Hut Failure to (Spread Outside the Capital K Important Feature. ST. PBTBRBBURG Nov 17. 2:86 a. m Chough the Industrial tie-up in St. r. torebujg yesterday was even more complete than it we Wednesday, and though in ak ha. been manifested in the ranks of the workmen and strikei-have strikei-have broken out al Moscow nnd Deval, the mi il important feature of yo.Uerday's doveloponts was the failure of the walkout walk-out to spread generally outside the capital capi-tal The mo emenl apparently lucks the sponti neltj and contagiousness of the las) great strike, which broke out at Mi H ow, and dispatches received from the industrial centers of Russia up to thl- hour show little Inclination on the patt of the workmen to take up cudgels In behalf of Poland. No Direct Connection. The factory strike at Moscow, who h has assumed considerable proportions, probably 45,000 men belnp; out, has no dl-recl dl-recl connection with the SI Petersburg walkout, and dlspatchi s from the old capital say that the railroad men received the request Of the St Peter.-burgr strike committee coldly The whole great network net-work of railroads centering at Moscow except the St. Petersburg line, la atlll In operation. At Deval the employees of the railroad shops struck, but the reason for the strike is nc4 stated. Wotkmen Keep Indoors. In St. Petersburg, yesterday parsed with complete order Patrols were visible visi-ble in all the Industrial quarters and Cossacks Cos-sacks were trotting up and down the Nevsky prospect among the swiftly dashing dash-ing Carriages and sleighs, but the workmen, work-men, in obdeience to the order of the strike commit iec. kept generally Indoors nnd did not attempt demonstrations, so that then- was no occasion to resort to force to avert trouble. Cut Off City's Light. The strikers forced the closing of the Most OW railway station early yesterday, slopping outRoing traffic for Moscow, and at 1ft o'clock last night they finally suc- re, p.,) n (-osing the electric stations and In cuttinK off light ttom the city Committees Com-mittees were sent to all the theaters and succeeded In stopping the performances In several Of them, nnd In the outlying districts they went from drug store to drug store, ordering the pharmacists to Close nnd threatening them with the destruction de-struction of their stocks If they refused. Others stores were not Interfered with Course Is Condemned The action of the strikers with regard to the dtuggists Is In striking contrast with the course pursued in Plnlnnd. where, when every other business participated partic-ipated In the general strike, the drug-giStS drug-giStS Were directed to remain open in order or-der that the Sii k might not suffer The course Is cond smned by a large part of the population Rnise Strike Fund At a meeting of the strike committee last night the question of the termination of the strike was not brought up, but the Associated Press noticed an expectation on tho part of many of the delegates that th strike would end Saturdn night The principal question under discussion at the meeting was the formation of a strike treasury, by gathering funds to be used in in lure walkouts, and after long consideration con-sideration II was decided to ask the workmen work-men to contribute 1 per cent of their wages for this purpose, the fund to be at tin- diM.osal uf tin . onimilte. A proposition to call out the cab drivers was also discussed, but, although several deleaalcs asserted that the drivers were read to strike at a nod from the com-ntlttee, com-ntlttee, there was genial doubt as to whether such a strike could be affected Hope to Pacify Peasants. There Is n betterment of the agrarian conditions. Dispatches from Kusk, Poltava. Polta-va. Rlazan, Samara and other provinces continue to report the spread of dlsorder.-v Whlch In Poltava are taking R.n untl-Jew-!sh turn. However, t lie Imperial manifesto regarding th distribution of the crown domains, which by strenuous work was Anished last night will bo Issued early this morning and the ESmperor and Count VVIttO hope It will tend to pacify the peasants and have hii important tactical effect on the coming struggle with tho Socialists and other antl-Governm-nt for S In the elections for the Douma. |