THE CUBA REVIEW. 



11 



It is orobable that Presi- 

 Labor dent Gomez will soon be 



Troubles. confronted with serious la- 

 bor difficulties. Strikes have 

 taken place at Cienfuegos and Cardenas and 

 among the stevedores in Havana. 



The striking stevedores at Cienfuegos 

 and the workmen of the San Manuel es- 

 tate went on strike on January 11 for an 

 eight-hour day. It was settled in favor 

 of the men when President Gomez tele- 

 graphed his earnest wish to have the strug- 

 gle terminate. 



A general strike is now expected to ob- 

 tain an equalization of working hours. 



One of the first vessels to 

 The be built for the use of the 



Harbor government of Cuba is a 

 Mail Boat, harbor mail boat, known as 

 the Correos, built at Croton, 

 N. Y. In Havana the vessels do not tie 

 up at wharves, but are loaded from lighters 

 and the policy of the government requires 

 the use of a mail boat visiting the ships at 

 intervals, collecting and distributing mail. 

 The Correos, which resembles a towboat 

 and also a small river boat, is admirably 

 fitted for this purpose. She is seventy- 

 two feet in length, with a beam of 15 feet 

 and gross tonnage of thirty-three tons. 



Carretera de Pinar del Rio caminos viejo y nuevo. 



ROAD MAKING IN CUBA. The new road in the background; the old road in the 

 foreground. 



President - elect Gomez's 

 The Cabinet Cabinet is as follows. This 

 and is his own official announce- 



Secretaries ment : 



Secretary of Government, 

 Nicholas Alberdi. 



Secretary of State, Justo Garcia Velez. 



Secretary of Finance, Emarcellino Diaz 

 de Villcga. 



Secretary of Justice, Luis Octavia Di- 

 vine. 



Secretary of Sanitation, Dr. Mathias 

 Duque. 



Secretary of Public Works, Benito La- 

 gureuela. 



Secretary of Education, Dr. Ramon 

 Meza. 



S'ecretary of Agriculture, Ortolio Foyo. 



General Eusebio Hernandez was origi- 

 nally selected by President-elect Gomez as 

 Secretary of Government, but declined to 

 accept the place on account of differences 

 concerning a sub-secretary. 



The following assistant secretaries were 

 likewise officially named on January 23 : 



Government, Licentiate Francisco Aran- 

 go y Mantilla; State, Dr. Jose Francisco 

 Ramirez de Estenoz ; Finance, General 

 Francisco Lopez Leiva ; Justice, Dr. Juan 

 de Dios Kohly ; Education, Major Pedro 

 Mendoza Guerra; Agriculture, Colonel Luis 

 Perez. The departments of Sanitation and 

 Public Works have no assistant secretaries. 



Legislative 

 Program. 



government 



The legislative program 

 includes the following: 

 Codification of Cuban 

 laws, tarifif reformation, 



^ customs and warehouses, 



building of schools, creation of a normal 

 school, creation of national boards of 

 agriculture and education, arbitration of 

 differences arising between employers 

 and employees, an independent statistical 

 department, the creation of a national 

 library and the removal of the ban 

 against cock fighting. 



On Feb. 4 a bill was introduced revok- 

 ing Governor Magoon's decree providiiig 

 for a quorum. The Senate sent the bill 

 to the Committee on Government. 



