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Show CHILEAN LOAN MAY-AID MAY-AID IDLEWORKERS Closing of Nitrate and Copper Cop-per Plants Disaster SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 12. Completion Comple-tion of the long; drawn out negotiations for Chile's first loan In the North American Amer-ican market was viewed In many quarters quar-ters today as a means for affording some relief in the acute situation resulting; re-sulting; from unemployment, n which the attention of the various jpovern-ment jpovern-ment departments has been directed for the last fortniKht. It 1h estimated that between 25.000 and 30.000 persons are idle in different parts of the country, coun-try, principally through the closing of nitrate plantsand reduced production at the copper mines. The latter are controlled by large North American interests. in-terests. The railroad projects which now can be started, it is pointed out. will employ em-ploy large numbers of men pending resumption re-sumption of work at the nitrate fields, while passage of the bill provide for an expenditure of 60.000,000 pesos on public improvements will give employment employ-ment to thousands of others. The labor situation in the nitrate zone reached an acute stage last week when several thousand unemployed stormed the . commissary of the 8an Uregorio nitrate plant and clashed with soldiers. The assertion is made that the situation situa-tion is not unlike that which prevailed In the country just previous to the world war, when the nitrate Industry was virtually paralyzed, throwing thousands thou-sands into forced idleness. Considerable unrest among the workers, work-ers, however, marks the present sltua- , tion. (1 roups of agitators, according to the newspapers, have been active in promoting discontent and advocating radical measures to keep the nitrate plants operating. Ah Investigation by the authorities into alleged radical activities in the Pampa region la under wav. i |