Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.63/168

The Acting Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, May 20, 1916, 4 p.m.

86. Silliman reports Governor Zacatecas decreed all mine owners must begin working within 30 days; otherwise laborers permitted work mines their own account.

Take up with appropriate authorities behalf American mine owners, pointing out impossibility their working mines under present disturbed conditions and absence transportation facilities. Endeavor obtain withdrawal decree.

Polk