DESPERATE PEASANTS.
UNEMPLOYED IN MEXICO.
THREAT TO SACK A CITY.
MISERY AND SUFFERING
MUCH TROUBLE WITH MOBS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received February 22, 5.5 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 21. A despatch from Mexicali, Lower California, slates that a mob of 3000 hungry unemployed peasants sent an ultimatum to the authorities threatening to sack the city to-niorro\v unless food and work are provided immediately. The correspondent paints a picture of considerable misery in tho 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 being doing all possible to provide rations of flour arid beans for the sufferers from tho scanty stocks available.
The situation has been made worse by tho recent reduction of the minimum wages on tho cotton fields to about one dollar 20 cents a day.
It is reported that the Governor left Mexicali for Tijuana after issuing orders for tho keepers of the saloons and restaurants to discharge all employees and substitute Mexican unemployed. An undercurrent of political difficulties heightens the gravity of the situation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20805, 23 February 1931, Page 9
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196DESPERATE PEASANTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20805, 23 February 1931, Page 9
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