AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
SBy Electric .Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. ST, PETERSBURG, Fob, 9, The hospitals, at Warsaw are overcrowded, The police at St. Pecersburg* in presenting a list of the •ringleaders of the strike movement* urged employers to dismiss them, Tho employers hesitate, as many, are skilled workers,, and .cannot be replaced. The directors of the Nevski naval shipyard refused compliance with .the i&ovcrnment recommendati on that iPutiloff and other, works should pay. t'hein men generously for tho period they were on strike. The employer's demurred, and the men insisted, hence a renewal of tho strike. A majority of the newspapers in Southern Russia are insistent on a cessation ,of the war. Strikers eastward of Irkutso cut the railway for 1000 yards. Soldiers guarding the lino struck, leaving 60 miles unprotected. In order to ruin Father Gapony the police are circulating a story that he appropriated IS million roubles .of workmens’ money. Six Government anil IS private workers at St. Petersburg aro complying with tho Government’s suggestion to reduce the hours pi labor to. 57 per week.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1377, 11 February 1905, Page 2
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