WORLD'S LABOUR PROBLEMS.
Strike in Russia.
{Received To-day, at 5.15 a.m.)
St. Petersburg, Last Night,
A Ukase empowers all Governors and Municipal authorities, in the event of interference, of railway, postal or telegraphic communication, to impose full or modified martial law. The Government has ordered the dissolution of the Railway Union. The revolutionaries interpret this as provocation to precipitate the struggle before disaffection permeates the army.
{Received Last Night, at 10 J p.tn.)
St. Petersburg, Last Night.
The official, communique issued by the Government goes on to say that the Government considers the railway men's complaints and demands largely justified, and the Council of State will include sixteen million roubles in the Estimates for 1906 for the improvement of conditions of service.
It is also announced that the minimum salary of post or telegraph officials is to be fixed at 468 roubles, instead of 300 roubles, with a quinquennial liseof salary in the case of officials whose conduct is good.
Half a million roubles will be distributed among post and telegraph officials who have worked overtime during the railway strike.
The Czar, adds the communique, has sanctioned a law imposing imprisonment on persons inciting, or beginning, or participating in a strike on the railway and telegraph stations.
Membership of associations whose aim is the production of strikes entails imprisonment in a fortress for terms ranging from sixteen to forty-eight months.
Wages will not be paid during the arbitrary stoppage of work.
Employes injured in health or incapacitated by the acts of strikers will receive compensation or pensions. If killed, their families will be provided for.
WORLD'S LABOUR PROBLEMS.
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 19 December 1905, Page 5
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