... pass any laws without the Tsars approval and could also be dismissed by him at any time without question giving it very little power. The Fundamental laws agreed to the existence of the Duma but it only managed to pass laws to give workers accident insurance and measures to do with the armed forces. For every 90,000 workers there was one representative where as there was one representative for every 2000 nobles meaning that the 1% of nobles elected 2/3 of the representatives in the third Duma. Workers were still not allowed to strike for better wages or working conditions as shown in the Lena massacre in 1912 where workers went on strike for better working conditions. The employers called in the police who opened fired at the protestors showing that the workers still had no rights. The workers were still living in the same appalling conditions and there ...

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