AWAKENED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7735, 10 February 1905, Page 3

AWAKENED RUSSIA.

Die Distribution of Socialist Literature. LONDON, F?b. «. French s state that there is a general strike at Irkutsk, including the railway. .\o Russian home news h a >; been allowed to reach Manchuria since recent despatches disastrously all'ected the army. Father Garpon is circulating in St.. Petersburg a petition asking for measures to put an end to general jguoranec and absence of law., and provide against poverty and protect labour against depression. St. FETEUSIdRG, Feb. 8. The Czar has appointed 11. Kobokoff a member of the Council of the Empire, as President of the Committee, and to censor the pre s laws) in a liberal direction. * 1 RUSSIAN CONCILIATION SCHEME. (Received Feb. 9, 9.55 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9. The Czar has approved of KokovtSod's proposals to permit workmen the right to purticipa-te in measures for the improvement of their lot, including a jo) nt oneiliation boaid to settle wages and olher questions affecting their welfare. The Czar has iCi'erred the scheme Ip a committee of Hipsters. Kokovtvofl recommends a ten fours' day, and nine hours when on n.ght work. He also thinks it feasible to fix rates for an eight hours' day, and to permit manufacturers to work -on holidays so long as they are bound to give their men four free days per month. The workers f should also l>c permitted the righl of strikiog for economic reasons, so long as they commit no excesses. (Received Feb. 9, 9.50 p.m.) W-NIHIX, Feb. 9. I't is reported by the Daily Telegraph that the bluejackets at VladincrofT, who refused to fire on the peo pie, have been sentenced to penal servitude tor lite. MAXIME GORKY. HIS SEVERE TREATMENT IN PRISON. LONDON, Feb. 9. Madame Gorky has written a lettei declaring that her husband is cntitl ed to his own dothes instead of thi prison garb, and complains that h is exposed to the cold stone floor an< . deprived of writing materials. Sue punitive treatment, she declares, i unjustifiable and' illegal before trial There are 130,000 strikers at Lods