THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13207, 14 February 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

THE STRIKES IN POLAND. A HEATY' CASUALTY LIST. MANX" THOUSANDS STILL ON STJRIKE. OVERiWIffG THE WORKERS A COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE STRIKKKS , LOSSES. MOWING THEM DOW}?. "■ST. PETERSBURG, February 12. (Received Feb. 13, at 8.33 a.m.) .In Poland the total casualties are:— Three hundred strikers ' killed, 300 wounded, and 2000 arrested. | Five hundred strikers, when, quietly crossing the railway at Skarzysko, were fired on by the soldiers, 24 of the men being killed and 44 wounded. Social-Democratic demonstrations sympathising with the Russian revolutionists were hold in Berlin' and Stuttgart. THE LODZ AND WARSAW STRIKES. MORE TROOPS SUMMONED. ST. PETERSBURG, I'ebrnary 13.\ (Received Feb. 13, at 9 p.m.) One hundred thousand are still on strike at Lodz for eight hours' work and 10d an hour. The manufacturers offer 10 hours and a moderate increase in wages. There are 10,000 troops in Lodz, and more have been summoned. There is renewed disorder at Warsaw. Hooligans plundered a gunsmith's shop. Tho printers have struck, and all the big factories are idle. Tlie police intend lo expel all strikers living oulsido the Warsaw district. OVERAWING THE STRIKERS. WORK OR STARVE. (Received Feb. 13, at 9 p.m.) The Caucasian strikers are resuming to avert starvation. An overwhelming display of the miliary on Sunday overawed the St. Petersburg workmen who had threatened to be avenged for the events of the 22nd January. Much violently revolutionary literature is circulated amongst workmen. A REFORM SUGGESTED. ST. PETERSBURG, February 12. (Received F«b. 13, at 8.35 a.m.) M. Suvorit, proprietor of the Novoe Vremya, in the course of an article, ndn'ocated a parliament of representatives of the Zemstvos, A COMMISSION OF 'INQUIRY. THE MOSCOW MUNICIPALITY. ST. PETERSBURG, February 13. (Received Feb. 13, at 10.15 p.m.) The Czar appointed Senator Chidlovski president of a committee to ascertain the causes of the workmen's discontent in St. Petersburg and devise remedies. Manufacturers awl workmen will be represented on the committee. The Imperial Russian Technical Society urges the convening of a pan-Russian Congress, representing, labour, capital, and science, to consider the labour question. The Moscow municipality refuses to obey the Governor's summons to discuss a settlement of the labour troubles because it is enjoined to debate in secret. A SUSPECTED MINISTER. ST. PETERSBURG, (February 12. (Received Feb. 13, at 8.33 a.m.) It has'transpired that when M. Plehve was assassinated he carried with him a document for the Czar's signature authorising the search of M. de Witte's house.