The Russian Strike

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 55, 25 July 1914, Page 5

The Russian Strike

WORKMEN IN CONFLICT WITH TROOPS. ARREST OF STRIKE LEADERS. By Cahlc—Press Association—Copyright Received 25, 12.50 a.m. St. 'Petersburg, July 24. Employees nt the Government's Obukhoff gun factory are joining the strike, many being terrorised into joining. Tn the collisions with the. police occurring throughout Wednesday it is estimated that twenty wire killed and a hundred wounded.

A thousand assembled at the Imperial porcelain factory and stoned the windows.

Eight thousand shipbuilders at Nikollefr struck and sang revolutionary songs. Several were wounded in collision with troops. •

The police arrested thirty of the strike committee, including the editorial staffs of two Labor newspapers. M. Poincare witnessed a review of sixty thousand troops at Tsarskoeselo, an:! left for Stockholm. His visit was ev, '.shadowed by the strike riots.

VIOLENT TACTICS. ■St. Petersburg, July 23. The strikers at Viborg cut down tho telegraph poles, tore up the pavements, overturned vans, and used them as barricades whence thoy fired on and stoned the troops. During the fight they sang revolutionary songs. In four other districts rioters stoned the police. In all casej the Cossacks fired volleys and charged. One woman and five workmen were killed, and seventeen wounded. Three of the police were severely, and many slightly, injured. The rioters attempted to burn the bridge leading to Viborg and to destroy the waterworks.