greatwar-1914:March 8, 1917 - 100,000 Workers on Strike in Petrograd, Citizens Join Munitions Makers
greatwar-1914:March 8, 1917 - 100,000 Workers on Strike in Petrograd, Citizens Join Munitions Makers to Demand Food and Better Pay Pictured - The Red Wheel starts to turn. Strikes that began at the Putilov munitions works in Petrograd on March had multiplied enormously within a week. On March 8, up to 100,000 demonstrates were in the city, marching and waving flags as they demanded more food, better pay, and effective government. The Tsar had boarded a train out of the city the day before, bound for army headquarters at Mogilev. He wrote to his wife that he was bored and missing his half-hour game of patience every evening, adding that “I shall take up dominoes again my spare time.” In his diary he wrote that “In all my spare time I am reading a French book on Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.” The Tsar had become isolated from the changes happening in his kingdom. -- source link