STRIKE EXTENDING AT THE CAPITAL

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 8 March 1905, Page 7

STRIKE EXTENDING AT THE CAPITAL

DISTURBANCES AT IRONWORKS. FREE FIGHT AMONG THE MEN. ST. PETERSBURG, 7th March. Tho striko at St. PotorsJjurg is oxtonding. During disturbances nt tho Putiloff ironworks the moil blow up two boilers. A froo Tight nmone tho incn followed. Twenty- two wero killed and wounded with revolvers. Tho Putiloff works nro to bo closed to-day unless all tho employees resinno, work. >- Tho men are incensed at t.bo nolico arrowing and transporting to villages nil who woro olcclod ns their dopntios. WORKMEN TERRORISED. (Received Mnrch 8, 7.32 a.m.) LONDON, 7th March. Tho Times vorsion of tho Putiloff disturbance states that nn <<xplcnion killed many of tlio workmen and terrorised tho rest into joining tho strike AN ABORTIVE COMMISSION. (Rocoivcd March 8, 8.48 n.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 7th March. It is officially nnnoimcod thnt tbo Chidlovsld ConMiiission has failed, owingto tho workmen rofuaing to elect, ruprosontativoH. [Tho Commission wns sot up on tho 13th February "to noccrtarn tlio uatmes of workmon's discontent nt St. Petorsbiirg and dcrviso remedies. " Mnnufacturors and workmen wore suppofled to be,| rcprosonted on tho committeo.] TRANS-BAIKAL RAILWAY. TRAFFIC SUSPENDED. (Received Mnrch 8, 8.18 n.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 7th March. All traffic on tho Tram-Baikal railway has boon suspended for throe days. Tho strikers at Chila set firo to many wagon loads of army provisions, insisting on tho cessation of tho war in the Far East. REBELLION IN THE CA'CCABUS. LONDON, 7th Mnrch. Fho Standard states thnt ono hundred nnd thirty thousand Mingrolinns, Ossetcs, nnd other lnndlrss mountaineers in tho Western Caucasus are in open robcllion.