Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-04-10 | Page 6 | Tell of Misery in Porto Rico

OF IN PORTO New w York ork April 9 Senor Santiago delegate of the Federation of Labor of Porto Rico who arrived o oth oi th the steamer Ponce from San Juan is a petition from the work workmen workmen men of Porto Rico to President McKin McKinley ley In Iii this petition which bears signatures the Porto Ricans says Misery with all its horrible cone conse consequences quence is spreading in our homes with wonderful rapidity It has al already already ready reached such an extreme that many workers are starving to death while others that have not the courage to see their mothers wives children and sisters perish by hunger commit suicide by drowning themselves in the river or hanging themselves from branches of trees