RUSSIA'S LABOUR PROBLEM.
A Town at the Mercy of the Strikers. Inadequate Military Protection. A State of Turmoil and Tumult. Without Trams, Trains or Newspapers. What the Strikers Demand. (Received To-day, at 8.55 a.m.) St. Petersburg, August 10. '*•' Forty-five thousand strikers at Baku have been masters of tho town for six days. Only six hundred soldiers are there. There havo been no trains, trams or newspapers for ton days, while the town was in total darkness for two nights. Many incendiary fires have taken place at the naptha wells. The military have been largely reinforced, and have been escorting trains and acting as train conductors. There will be wholesale arrests of Btrikers if they will not accept promises of an eight hours' day and an increase of wages. The men ask for a material guarantee.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7535, 11 August 1903, Page 3
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135RUSSIA'S LABOUR PROBLEM. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7535, 11 August 1903, Page 3
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