Bloody Sunday
· Prices of goods Rose so rapidly bi 1904 that the real wages decline by 20%.
· During this time four members of the putilove iron works were dismissed.
· The action was called for.
· Over 110000 workers in Saint Petersburg went on strike demanding A reduction in the working day to 8 hours and increase in wages and improvement and working conditions.
· The procession of workers was led by Father Gapon.
· When the reach the winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks over hundred workers were killed and about 300 wounded.
· This incident is known as Bloddy Sunday and it led to a series of strikes.
· During the 1905 revolution Tsar allowed the creation of an elected consultative Parliament or Duma.
· Tsar not wants any questioning of his authority.
· He dismissed the first Duma within 75 days and re-elected II amount within 3 months he changed the voting laws and packed the third Duma with conservative politicians liberals and revolutionaries were kept out.
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