People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — FORCED LABOR ABOLISHED. [ARTICLE]

FORCED LABOR ABOLISHED.

President Barrios Removes the Last Vestice of Guatemalan Slavery. San Jose, Guatemala, via Galveston, Tex., Oct. 26. —President Peina Barrios has decreed that labor should henceforth be free all over the country. By this decree the old institution of forced labor is abolished. This pernicious system was nothing less than a form of slavery tbinly’disguised.