Count Witte Appeal.
Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 554, 18 November 1905, Page 3
Count Witte Appeal.
Brothers!
■'"■ "Glva Us Time"
_ Workman's Vehement Attack • ...■ A Paltry Anxiety. • '' Eeceived Nov. 18, 0.28 a.m. •' St. Petersburg, Yesterday. Conn! Witte, nddressing tbe Strikers' , Association as brothers, appealed to them to resume work and cease disorder; to have pity on their wives and children ■ and tarn a deaf ear to mischievous coun eel». He declared the Czar had ordered up eeial attention to be devoted to (he • Labour question and therefore he has appointed a Ministers of Commerce and Industry which would establish just relations between masters and men. "Give us titoe," he continued. " I wiil do all that is possible to give heed to tha advice . of the man who wishes you well," The Council of Workmen's Delegates . and many hundreds of the bettor class of workmen met to consider a reply. ~. One speaker vehemently attacked : Count Witte, denouncing him as a partisan of the ruling class and declaring ; that such as he. were the chief cause of i
•o many widows and orphans among $he ~ labouring classes. It oam.3 badly from the authorities to affect such anxiety which was intended to deceive the ... people, whose eyes, however, wore perfectly open. It was resolved to continue .;■'.. the strike indefinitely.