The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-15
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SPREADS N MEXICO
Shooting Men Who rotest
Against Unbeatable Condi
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Evidently Trouble Will Not Cease
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MEXICO, May ls.- Three times with
Inn the last ten years the republic OF
Mexico has simmered on the edge OF
q revolution and now the fires have
[again started which threaten to blaze
UP in revoluti onary uprisings from,
southern .Yucatan northern Ghihua-
hua. It began first in December, 1908.
with the revolt OF f the Fifth Cavalry.
The men had been forcel into the SER
vice, treated like dogs after their en-
listment, and in desperation, at last
5shot: a number Of their. officers. Then
followed the sdesertion' of a body Of
men from the Sixteenth Infantry in
Mazatlan, groups OF the revOlting SOL
diery taking their arms and firing
upon the. Officers and troops which
pursued them. In: the City of Chihua-
'hla far officers Of the Eighteenth
Battalion We're. recently tried ana con-
victed Of. rebellion. The Eighth In
fantry, moving from Oaxaca to Yucca
tan, lost one-third ,of it's men by de-
sertion at the Port OF: Vera Cruz, the
remainder having to he. shipped by
force. The; colonel Of this same regi-
ment was shot by his men on their
arrival at Yucatan and the deserters,
taking their arms fraternized with the
Maya's, three battalions in all dis
appearing in the Jingles. % Fl. =
Revolt Of Peasants. hi: .=@ ! !
Peasant revolts have followed those
of the soldiery. In the state Of Chi
huahua the tax collectors pressed so
hard upon the people that arms were
finally the reply Of the harrassed citi-:
zens who shot several Of the officers
and even defied the troops which were
sent to satch them: A group Of three
hundred Chihuahuan farmers and citi-.
zens are now entrenched nthe noun
tains and their number is heinog in
creased by many q -fthe cowboys Of
Torrazas.. In this part OF the country
are a body Of men known as the
"sharpshooters. Of chihuahua who two
years ago whipped an entire regiment
IT infantry sent to capture them.
i Unbearable Taxation. -; ~
II Seeking some relief from urrbearable
taxation, the people Of the state Of
|sMorelos recently attempted to elect the
popular young Patricio Levya to the
office Of governor but on the day Of
election the troops shot dewn the vot-
ers who were supporting Levya and,
after imprisoning the peoples candid
ate, declared the election of Pablo Es-
candon, the chosen candidate and aide
de-camp Of President Diaz. ~ ..5
An ominous Massacre.
The last and most ominous massa-
ere has just occurred in little town
called Velardena, close to the Sierra
Madre mountains and not far from
Torreon, which, by the by was the
center Of an uprising last June At
Velardena the people were holding a
fiesta: and marching in procession
when the local police attempted to
dispense the orderly demonstration.
The people resisted; troops were sent
for; shooting commenced; and the re-
suit was the Imprisonment Of forty
citizens, and the killing, without trial,
of twenty-five others. The whole town
fled to the mountains where two hum
dred and fifty desperate men are now
In arms defying the government Of
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