The Archive · 1905

The Demands of the Russian Workmen

London vii Bombay, 2nd. March

The workmen at St. Petersburg yesterday chose two hundred electors whose duty it is te appoint representatives to the Commission appointed to examine the grievances of tke workmen.

These electors, at their meeting which is the first meeting of workmen permitted at St. Petersburg, refused to carry out their task unless three thousand workmen who have been arrested since the 22nd of January are immediately liberated, and their other demands, including the inviolability of person and domicile, and freedom of speech, and of the Press, are granted.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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