Meetings by the thousands are being held. The Russian people are dividing themselves along the lines of professions and occupations and in the meetings the smallest problems are in a meeting of washwomen in Petrograd the other day, for instance, the women went so far as to discuss their social standing.
"We want an eight hour day," declared one washwoman, "we want to visit the people of Petrograd and enjoy life."
"No! No!" declared the next speaker. "What we want is more work. We want to get all the work I can do and work as long as I please, no friends to visit."
"That woman is wrong" declared a member. "I have a third, "If we haven't got any friends to visit, it's because we've never had time to make friends as other people do. What we need is more friends and more time to enjoy them."
Free Speech for All.
Utter and absolute free speech exists; only this could make possible the infinity of the number of matters that are being discussed by the people of seething Russia. Folks are free to talk against each other, yesterday, for instance the soldiers of the 12th army at the front decided that the czar was not being guarded with sufficient care in his palace. They passed a resolution to that effect and the resolution reached Minister of War Kerensky.
Wine From Ex-Czar.
"The ex-Czar is giving liquor to the soldiers who are guarding him," was one of the charges. 