Russia.
ALLEGED REVOLUTIONARY CONSPIRACY.
ARREST OF I.ABOCR LEADERS
(Reeched J 5, t>. 15 am.)
London, Feb. 14
A Petrograd correspondent, commenting on the arrest. (J f leaders of moderate labour organisations on a charge of revolutionary conspiracy, states that the Premier and tinmajority , of the Cabinet favoured workmen’s represent.it ion on the ('entral Munitions Board. JL Protopopott [lnterior Minister) disagreed and ircvivcd the talk of revolution. lie sent police to ra>d ti.e leaders' houses where they allegedly found documents disclosing a secret. organisation eon! rolling strikes.
The correspondent adds: “The Russian Labour movement hitlim-lo Las not. been revolutionary. Strikes hate not interfered with the production of munitions, but M. Protopopoff transferred the. strikers wholesale to the firing line. M. Protopopoff has instituted intense censorship and has banished leading writers from Petrograd.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 5
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