The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-05
A STRIKE IN SANTIAGO.
street Cleaners Make . Demand for Higher
Wages.

Wages.
Santiago. Nov. 1.-THE Cubans who
have been employed in cleaning and re-
pairing the streets of Santiago have
struck for higher wages though they
nave been receiving a dollar a day. or so
cents n two rations a day-higher
wages than nave ever before been paid
Tor similar work. In fact. local en-
pioyers OF labor AVE beeen complain
inng OF this high rate, alleging tina Il
was quite impossible for them to COM
pete with the government on such
terms. The Cuban laborers at the best
are lazy n slipshod. They want an
increase of so cents a day. General
Leonard Wood absolutely refuses TO ac-
cede to the demand and will adopt he
roic measures IL the strike is not
promptly declared of. The trouble is
that many of the strikers have ratiops
enough on hand to last a month or more
and they think they can coerce the
United States authorities.
Genera Wood a he will arrest
every laborer able to work and. under a
vagrancy law which he will establish,
compel them to work 80 days for rations
While confined In jail. He dislikes the
Idea OF importing labor. but believes
that this must be the m result.
General Wood visited the yellow fever
hospital to make an inspection. Ha
found one patient suffering from
Bright's disease, but that there had not
been a case of yellow fever under care
for two months. He has severely GEN.
sured DIR. Quicker. superintendent of the
hospital. for making an appeal for
American relief stores. and he will prob
ably abolish the hospital altogether at
a very early date.
Collector Donaldson has returned from
Gibara with $40. 900 customs receipts at
that place. He reports that there Is con-
ciderable smallpox In the neighborhood
OF Holguin. but no yellow fever.
General Demetrius Castillo, who is as
sisting In the work or organizing the
military department in the Gibara dis
trict, Is busy engaging men for gen
d'armie. enlisting men Of good physique
only.
Colonel Ray, who has returned from
Guantanamo, says that the Cuban gen.
eral. Perez, is about to grant Indefinite
burroughs to his men. to enable them to
go TO work. the reason apparently being
that many are practically starving and
would have gone to work anyhow.
Captain Chester of the United States
cruiser Cincinnati. after an examination
of the wreckof the Reina Mercedes. is
Of the opinion that the vessel can be
raised at small expense. She is OF an
antiquated type. but would be useful
Nhth CPdiIC dt a ctDooi mp u "
coast defense, though II would be neces-
sary to lay out a large sum In refitting
her.
The receipt of the associated press
bulletin announcing the safe arriva of
the United States transport Panama at
Havana caused relief here. as there had
been some uneasiness. although the re-
port that she had been lost was not
credited.
The department had been caused
much annoyance. owing 10 the utterly
u~nfounded dispatches forwarded on the
subject for a day or two to the United
States. more than so cablegrams having
been received asking for information.
One report was that a schooner had
passed some wreckage marked "Pana-
ma But there was nothing In this.
Every schooner in Santiago harbor was
visited and everywhere the same fiat
denial was a The rumor circu-
lated was a stupid hoax.