Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 1 | Starvation Wages

STAHTATION WAGES Panama Canal Workmen Have Had Enough New York Feb 23A special to the World from Panama says The men employed on the canal are abandoning work Even those in the greatest need refuse < to accept the low wages offered to replace the strikers I Is now rumored ru-mored that it is the purpose of the company to put wages so low that men cannot accept and so have a pretext for not continuing work until a fresh supply of funds comes from France Foreigners here are protesting against reported violation of the malls I is believed that the government will increase In-crease the Import duties imposed upon some of the most important articles of living