Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 11 | Sugar Laborers Strike

SUGAR LABORERS STRIKE Porto Rico WorkeiB to Quit in January. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Jan. L At the present time It seems probable that all the laborers employed In the sugar Indus-trv Indus-trv will go on strike MADS time In Jsntl-;ir Jsntl-;ir For fully a Tear the labor lenders have been a irking to th'.a end. and thy now appear determine to call a general cgrl. till in al strike, especially Of laborers emplojed In the sugar fields and factories. fac-tories. The Government has been following follow-ing the matter closely nnd Is ready for any emergency that may arise. 1 A general strike of all the sugar workers work-ers would be a serious affair. It would I mean idleness for about 70,000 men. and i.,m- - 1 men wome;i and children, i .-r' sentlng one-fourth of the population of the island, would be rilrectl concerned In the movement. That such a .strike, even if it were prolonged only a few I weeks, would result In great loss to the 1 Island, ami more particularly to the strl-. strl-. kers themselves, Is a conceded fact.