Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-05 | Page 1 | Idle Nitrate Workers of Chile Start Riots

IDLE NITRATE WORKERS OF CHILE START RIOTS VALPARAISO, Chile. Feh 4. Chilean Chile-an government troops are belnK rushed rush-ed on special trains to AUtOfagaSta province, where soldiers and workers In a large nltrato plunt have been engaged en-gaged In fighting. Advices received late today stated that only 6lx persons had been killed durlriR the fighting, eat lier dispatches declaring that twenty-three had met death. Confirmation has been received, receiv-ed, however, that Daniel Jones, in charge of the San Gregerlo nitrate plant, about which the fighting centered, center-ed, was assassinated. Many nitrate concerns have closed their Cactories recently because of the Inactive market and as a result, thousands thous-ands of men aie idle in the disturbed district, it is stated the management of the San Gregorlo plant took eUtra- rdlnary measures to relieve the condition condi-tion of unemployed persons, goods be-' be-' -"LI .i i dace I .ri. e.-. and fuel being distributed without charge to those in mcdy circumstances.