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Show - r f STRIKE IS SPREADING. . Workmen of Moscow Following In s Footsteps of St. Petersburg Brethren. Tho most startling feature In tho -A Itusslan strlko situation Is tho nowa that sevornl factories In Moscow havo closed nnd that tho workmen In tho phi capital of Russia nro repeating tho tactics of tholr fellow wotkmen ot tho now capital, matching from shop to shop nnd mill to mill, demanding that tho establishments bo shut down Tho wholo city Is reported to bo In a stato of great excitement over tho news ot tho bloodshed at SL Petersburg, which lias precipitated ' Immediately tho Btriko that had been scheduled for Wcdnesdny. Moscow has moro woi Union and less troops than St Petersburg, and besides be-sides Is Just now tho hcatt of tho Lib- j oral movement, nnd the danger ot 'f bloodlot occurences there than have been witnessed In St Potersbuig mo proportionately greater A rising nt Moscow is also moro likely to havo greater results Industrially and politically politi-cally than that of St. Petersburg According to private ic)orts tho workmen in sevirnl other big cites, notably Khnrkoff. where largo locomotive locomo-tive works are locnted, already havo completed plans for a general suspen slon of work Moi cover, reports nro cm rent thnt tlio workmen, who other-xvlso other-xvlso xxoulcl fcoon be forced hack into tho shops or staive. havo received assurances as-surances of financial support from tho i sources which hitherto have furnished " tlio sinews of war to tlio liberal apd rovolutlonar) agitation, but havo not bofoio boon In touch with tlio labor movement If the strlko becomes gon-oral gon-oral nil over Russia, nnd especially If i the railroads are diawn In, It might lmmedlntel) forco tho nation to mnko peace with Japan Tho situation appears gravo from every stnndpolnt. but the authorities, although apparently somewhat bewildered, bewil-dered, decline their purpose to stand firm, maintaining that It is their first duty to preserve order scouting tho Idea of actual i evolution There aio extieniely significant reports re-ports that Kmperor Nicholas in making mak-ing the decision at tlio extraordinary meeting of the council of tho empire nt TsaiskooSolo to declare St Petersburg Peters-burg In a stato of siege, announced that ho had tesolved to Issue a manifesto mani-festo to Hie people, with a xiow of calming them, promising to create a mixed commission of workmen and of llclals to lnvestlgnto nnd decide tlio questions of the demands of tho strikers, strik-ers, especially the ono affecting hours of lnbor, which Russian law fixes at eleven Tho military In St Petersburg on Monday had a film grip on the situation, situa-tion, nnd Hie police used every precaution precau-tion such as forbidding tlio uso of petroleum and requiring the people to remain Indoors Tlio tension, which wns somewhat relaxed In the morning, continued to lncicaso during tho dny Conditions appeared to bo ominous, when, shortly nftcr dark, tho workmen In two eloc- f trie light plants walked out, refusing triplo pay to remain, nnd plunging half r tho city Into utter darkness, Including ) the Ncvsky prospect, which Is In tho fashionable residence quarter v ' Tlio wnler supply also was cut off, ' nnd n x oritnblo panic ensued Tales that dynamite was In tho possession of the stilkers and Hint it was tho purposo to sack and burn tho town had been n circulation, nnd many poisons wero tcrint-8trlcl.cn Uesorvo ttoops weie called out to guard tlio daikened portion of the city Tho peo-plo peo-plo still In tho streets, except n, low strikers nnd roughs, (led to tholr homes. Tho editors of four newspapers, tlio Ituss, tho Vledomosti, Hie Novostl nnd tlio Grashdhaiiln, declare their Intention, Inten-tion, as soon as tho pi Inters return to work, nnd they nro ablo to resumo publication, openlv to defy tlio confeorshlp In the matter of strike news nnd Sunday's nffnlrs nf-fnlrs The) drew up a letter to tho censor. sn)Ing thoy felt tlio gravity of the situation demanded that they print tho facts without minimizing or glossing gloss-ing them over Tho Novoo Vremya nnd other papers, however, refuse to Join, and the letter was not sont, but tho editors of tho four papers named agreed to adopt tho com so Indicated. |