HUNGRY PEASANTS

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20169, 23 February 1931, Page 11

HUNGRY PEASANTS

V * r FOOD AND JOBS DEMANDED. r 1 -V •;■■■■.■'■ SERIOUS SITUATION AT MEXICALI. (UJfITED PRESS AS'SQCIATIO*—BT HI.ECTBIO TBLEGKiPH—COPTEIQBT,) I / (Received February 22nd, 6.5 p.m.) NEW YORK., February 21. I A message from Mexico City states : , News from Lower California, | has been received to the effect that a mob of 3000 hungry and workless gea- | sents have sent an. ultimatum to the authorities threatening to .saob the city, to-piorrow unless food and>jobs are pro-, vided immediately.' It is stated that k then»' ig' considerable , misery in, the neighbourhood l of Mexicali, where many hate recently died of starvation. Shopkeepers 1 have experienced much trouble with mobs of peasants attemptt ing to obtain food. The police hope to pontroj the situation and have been .doing all that,-is posaibjo to provide the fccatit available ration&jof flour and /beans for sufferers,' The situation has bee;> tnade worse > by the, recent reduction of tb£ minitj mum wages in the ( cotton fields to .about a dollar aim twenty cents per <W. Jt is reported that the Governor has/ left Mencali' for Tijuana . after issuing; orders that saloofis and restaur-' ants should discharge all foreign einr , ployeea dnd substitute Mexican unemployed -Ai» undercurrent <*f political difficulties heightens the gravity .of the'situation.'{ I ■ K.... ..>■* h ... >'. i •