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Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 29, 1901
Delegate Santiago Iglesias Tells of the Misery of the Workers of Porto Rico
From the Appeal to Reason of April 27, 1901:
From the Washington Times of April 9, 1901:
PORTO RICO’S CRY FOR AID
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Laborers of the Island Send a
Petition to the President.
———-No Public Works, They Say, Are Being
Conducted to Afford Them Relief
-The Old Spanish Laws Blamed
-Appeal for Employment.NEW YORK, April 8.-Santiago Iglesias, a delegate of the Federation of Labor in Porto Rico, is here, with a petition to President McKinley, which, he says, is signed by 6,000 workingmen of Porto Rico, and will be presented to the President by Samuel Gompers.
Mr. Iglesias said that the signers of the petition represented all classes of labor in every section of the island. He said the trouble in a large measure was due to the enforcement of the old Spanish laws by the present administration of the island, and it was hoped, he said, that the President would suggest changes in the shape of ordinances to be issued by Governor Allen that would tend to relieve the conditions. The petition is as follows:
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote EVD, Starve Quietly, Phl GS Speech IA, Mar 19, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1910/100319-debs-fighttothelast.pdf
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Apr 27, 1901, page 4
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/010427-appealtoreason-w281-DAMAGED.pdf
The Times
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-Apr 9, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85054468/1901-04-09/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Santiago Iglesias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Iglesias
From The Literary Digest of Apr 20, 1901
(search: porto rico misery)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QQM8AQAAMAAJ
Commission on industrial relations
-final report and testimony United States.
D.C. Gov. Print. Office, 1916
https://books.google.com/books?id=PeweAQAAMAAJ
Labor Conditions in Porto Rico, 11,026-11,224
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=PeweAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA11026
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