TROUBLES OF A REPUBLIC.
PORTUGUESE LABOR PARTY
(Press Aesn. — By Telegraph — Copyright)
(Received December 1, 10.5 a.m.) LISBON, ■ November 30. The city is rapidly approaching a state of anarchy. The mos;t potent force is labor, which is dictating to .the Government and employers. Strikes are of daily;' occurrence, and the Government is powerless to intervene. •"■■'• ,■: The repruiting,; of Angola (Portuguese Lower Guiitt^ji natives ior Sao Tjionie cocoa plantations mtJI henceforth be entinisted to the- Government administration, instead of to > private agents. [The method of recruiting the Angola natives for the cocoa plantations has been described as a system of slavery.] MACAO, November 30. A party of sailors landed from a Portuguese gunboat here, and, joined by soldiers, marclied to Government House, and demanded increased pay, the expulsion of religious orders, and the suppression of local newspapers. The two latter demands were coriiplied with. [Macao, a Portuguese colony j is an island at the mouth of the Canton r^ver, China, forming, with small \ islands adjacent a Portuguese dependency. It has an area of five square miles. The population exceeds 80,000.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12318, 1 December 1910, Page 5
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179TROUBLES OF A REPUBLIC. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12318, 1 December 1910, Page 5
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