RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
WHOLESA -i 7. PISFRANCHISEMENT. NEW YORK, Nov. 15. A despatch from St. Petersburg dated November 7 shows how small must be the hopes of the Intellectuals and the chances of the Socialists in the coming election of members of Parliament. They were dealt a sweeping blow-^yesterday by the .interpretation given by the Senate to the new election law, which, at one stroke disfranchised thousands of the poorer cjasses of city employees. Personal attendants on railroads and even locomotive engineei a and the most skilled and highest paid labour in Russia are affected by the intetttfetation. Outside of factory workmen, the ranks of the Socialist party are recruited chiefly from the railroad men, and the interpretation of the law is supplementary to the Senate's ruling of October 20, from whict, it was estimated that over 1,000,000 persons v».ho voted at the last election were cut (>»(■ ftpm the election lists.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 7 December 1906, Page 3
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