THREAT TO CITY.
DESPERATE PEASANTS
Ultimatum Sent by Mexican
Unemployed.
MISEEY E AMP ANT,
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)
MEXICO CITY, February 22. A dispatch from Mexicali. Lower | California, states that a mob of 3000 j hungry unemployed peasants sent an ultimatum to the authorities threatening to sack the city to-day unless food and work are provided immediately. The correspondent)paints a picture of considerable misery in the neighbourhood of Mexicali. He says many people have recently died of starvation. The shopkeepers have experienced much trouble with mobs of peasants attempting to obtain food. The police hope to be able to control the situation. They have been doing everything possible to provide rations of flour and beans for the sufferers from the scanty stocks available. The situation has been made worse by the recent reduction of the minimum wages on the cotton fields to about one dollar 20 cents a day. It is reported that the Governor left Mexicali for Tijuana after issuing orders for the keepers of the saloons and restaurants to discharge all foreign employees and substitute Mexican unem- j ployed. An undercurrent of political difficulties i heightens the gravity of the situation. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 45, 23 February 1931, Page 7
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193THREAT TO CITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 45, 23 February 1931, Page 7
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