STRIKES IN RUSSIA.
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION INTERRUPTED. (Received October 25, 0.2 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 21, Work at Saratoff and Ekaterinoalav lias been stopped. Three thousand railway men at Saratoff demanded a representative assembly, the suffrage, and the points mentioned in Count Witte’s speech. Railway communication between St. Petersburg and Moscow lias been stopped; The railway strike is spreading in many directions. Nearly all the mill and factory hands at Kharkoff and Balashoff have struck. It is believed the railway strike is a prelude to a general strike at the end of the year, intended to cause lack of food at Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5728, 25 October 1905, Page 5
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104STRIKES IN RUSSIA. New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5728, 25 October 1905, Page 5
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