Show DOU OLE f AM lUES s STARVE STARY TO DEAT IN PORTO RICO of the Associated Pres Pr San Juan Porto Port Ica Sa The recent strike of o 70 men employed on th Ponce Panes government road I their demand d maDd being be g for 5 cents sol per hour an advance of 2 cents ceni per hour and the more recent strike of pt 0 men working on the tho same road under a a New York con fain their demand demant being bing for a uniform rate rte of 50 30 5 cents cat per day da instead of or 40 and and 4 45 cents have haYe served ened to tuat the fact fac that there are at the very lowest estimate 50 laborers on ver the island without wih mt employment Though their employment demands were refused the strikers re quiet and an and made no attempt at demonstration On account of ot o lack of o funds to keep up the te estates many nany plantations i are arc ac Idle and are being fast fat overgrown ov with wild vege eSe ege tation Thousands of ot workmen are out oU of j I employment employment on this account Governor General Generl Davis says that tha in is his estimation Gover t of the inhabitants i of Porto Rico are dependent on labor It I was wa thought tho t that the country was wa in i j such a condition as to allow the distribution of relief sup plies DIes plies to be b stopped but Immediately after fter this was attempted the cities and towns tons cites began be n to fill fl up with beggars and in stances may be recorded where whole families lammes have na e died ded from starvation As A a consequence General Generl Davis has suggested to the authorities at Washington that the supplies be continued te About 6 natives have h 0 immigrated from Ponce to Cuba but from fr m letters received by their families here they have hae found Porto conditions Rico Rio in Cuba Cub even worse wore than In I |