100 years ago

Nov. 26, 1925

Charges that Mexican laborers, imported from Texas to Arkansas to pick cotton, have been forced to work for lower wages than specified in their contracts, and that they have been threatened with imprisonment and intimidated by armed foremen on the plantations of Lee Wilson & Co. at Wilson and Marie, Mississippi county, were contained in a telegram received by Governor Terral yesterday from the consul general of Mexico through the Mexican consular agent at New Orleans. The telegram appealed to the governor "to protect these laborers against the arbitrary methods employed by Lee Wilson & Co." and "in view of the seriousness of the situation and the possibility of public disturbances" requested the governor to telegraph the Mexican consul at New Orleans "what hop

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