LABOUR TROUBLES IN PERU.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 15

LABOUR TROUBLES IN PERU.

riots in interior. AMERICANS ATTACKED. (UHITED PRKSB ASSOCIATION —Bt ELECTRIC TELEQEAPH—COPTBIQHT.) LIMA (Peru), November 14. Evidences of revolt nre visible at various points in the interior, and foreigners reaching here are considerably worried over the fate of others left behind among the small railways, which are uindependable at the best. . The authorities assert that the "troubles are largely due to Communistic influences among the native miners, who are invariably susceptible to the influences of political Labour agitators. The latter recently have been inciting : them to make trouble, due to the closing of the mines followI ing the drop in metal prices. The general strike threatened throughout Peru appears closer today, but the outcome of . the whole trouble will largely depend on whether foreigners succeeded in escaping from the excited natives. The latter, as descendants of ■ the conquered Inca races, continue to. harbour hatred against all .foreigners. Refugees gave picturesque accounts of their experiences in the Cerro do Pasco region. It is now known that 115 foreigners are still within the danger zone. The miners are reported io have been led in their attacks by a. "white Peruvian woman named Grey," who •shouted for thorn to "Kill the Yankees and drink their blood." The refugees arrived at Lima on a train driven by a British miner named Knubsen, wlTo assumed control and brought the' train through with great difficulty, due to his unfamiliarity with engine-driving. Military -Jaw was . invoked here and ip other. 1 cities in Peru to-dav, several Americans having "been fatally assaulted by v striking miners in . the neighbourhood of. the Cerro do Pasco mines. The United States has large copper and gold mining- interests in this district, 15,000 feet above sea level. British and American women and children nre being moved out of the mi nihg area. '