Martin Antonenko
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Tsarist troops massacre striking workers!
At the state arms factory in the city of Zlatoust in the Ural...
... the workers have been on strike since March 23, 1903. Their strike is directed against a massive deterioration in working conditions ordered “from above”.
Among other things, the fines for production errors are to be massively increased and the use of the factory's own farmland (from which the working families live as part-time farmers) is to be restricted.
The workers have repeatedly refused appeals from the governor of Ufa, N. M. Bogdanovich...
...to get back to work.
On March 26, on the orders of Bogdanovich, the military appeared and without warning fired three volleys into the crowd of several thousand participants of the strikers...:
According to official figures, 69 workers are killed, more than 250 are injured, and many are subsequently arrested. The real numbers may have been far higher.
Of those arrested, 34 are tried and sentenced to prison or exile.
The burial of those shot on March 30 is the occasion for another mass demonstration, which, however, is non-violent given the massive deployment of troops.
Governor Bogdanovich cannot long enjoy his “victory” over the striking workers. 53 days after he was ordered to shoot, he was murdered in broad daylight by members of a radical underground movement in a public park in the city of Ufa.
March 26, 1903 went down in Russian history as the “Day of the Zlatoust Massacre”. Today, at the site of the massacre, a memorial commemorates March 26, 1903...:
At the state arms factory in the city of Zlatoust in the Ural...
... the workers have been on strike since March 23, 1903. Their strike is directed against a massive deterioration in working conditions ordered “from above”.
Among other things, the fines for production errors are to be massively increased and the use of the factory's own farmland (from which the working families live as part-time farmers) is to be restricted.
The workers have repeatedly refused appeals from the governor of Ufa, N. M. Bogdanovich...
...to get back to work.
On March 26, on the orders of Bogdanovich, the military appeared and without warning fired three volleys into the crowd of several thousand participants of the strikers...:
According to official figures, 69 workers are killed, more than 250 are injured, and many are subsequently arrested. The real numbers may have been far higher.
Of those arrested, 34 are tried and sentenced to prison or exile.
The burial of those shot on March 30 is the occasion for another mass demonstration, which, however, is non-violent given the massive deployment of troops.
Governor Bogdanovich cannot long enjoy his “victory” over the striking workers. 53 days after he was ordered to shoot, he was murdered in broad daylight by members of a radical underground movement in a public park in the city of Ufa.
March 26, 1903 went down in Russian history as the “Day of the Zlatoust Massacre”. Today, at the site of the massacre, a memorial commemorates March 26, 1903...:
