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Show Porto Ricaii Sup Workers On Strike Demand Increase (In Pay Fr6m SO to 75 Cents a Day. Large Fields I .... of Can Burned M ' J Now York, Aprll 3. From 30,d00 to 40,000 natlvo"work'ors In tho sugar fields of Porto JMco havo been on a strlko for an lncreaso In pay from f0 cents to 7C cents a day, according to J. C. Dills, chlof'of tho bureau1 of labor of tho Porto Hlcan govornment who arrived horo on tho stcamsnlp Philadelphia. Tho demands wero in process of adjustment for tho most part and tho majority of tho strikers woro back at work when ho left tho Island. During tho strlko, Mr. Dills said, largo fields of sugar tano woro burned. burn-ed. Tho strlko, which was goneinl was being settled ho snid, through tho efforts of govornment officials. No materia! decrease In tho output was noticed, since losses duo to tho strlko wcro offset by increased pro ductlon. An open spirit of antlAmerlcanlsin oxlsts through tho Island, according to tho Ilov. Frederick A. Wnrden, lor eight yours in chargo of tho Protestant Protes-tant Episcopal church at San .limn, who nlso was a passenger on the Philadelphia. |