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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



ORGANIZATION OF CUBAN SUGAR 

 GROWERS 



Cane growers and sugar mill owners 

 in Cuba have organized an association 

 known as the Association of Colonos and 

 Hacendados of Cuba, to obtain the passage 

 of laws favorable to both planters and 

 mill owners. 



The object of the association is to de- 

 fend the interests, economic, moral, and 

 material, of the sugar industry ; to bring 

 to bear upon the public authorities that 

 pressure necessary for the regulation of 

 taxes to be levied upon the industry ; and 

 to obtain agricultural and industrial laws 

 favorable thereto. 



A resolution was adopted petitioning 

 Congress to fix a minimum price to apply 

 to all sales, both for export and for local 

 consumption. 



Two classes of memberships are pro- 

 posed, active and honorary, the latter to 

 include sugar brokers, mill managers, sell- 

 ers of machinery for sugar mills and for 

 agriculture, and other persons who may be 

 interested in the development and better- 

 ment of the industry. 



The directing authority is to be lodged 

 in a board of directors of 25 members, 

 who shall in turn appoint a central execu- 

 tive committee of seven to reside perma- 

 nently in Havana. Provincial boards in 

 each province and local committees are 

 also provided for, as well as the organiza- 

 tion of various departments to look after 

 agricultural affairs, industrial affairs, im- 

 migration, transportation, statistics, tax- 

 ation and duties, arbitration, banks and 

 warehouses, moral and material welfare, 

 and legal affairs. 



The plan also proposes the organization 

 of a bank to be known as the Bank of the 

 Association of Hacendados and Colonos, 

 with a capital of $1 00,000,000, to be ob- 

 tained by the collection of a fee of 20 

 cents for each bag of sugar which the 

 member shall make, if a hacendado, or 

 for each 250 arrobas of cane grown, if a 

 colono. 



Latest advices state that the organiza- 

 tion is making rapid progress. 



U. S. SUGAR INVESTIGATION 



A resolution to investigate the sugar 

 situation has been introduced in the 

 United States Senate and adopted without 

 opposition. 



The Senate Committee on Commerce has 

 been instructed to investigate the short- 

 age of sugar and prices of sugar in the 

 United States, and the Sugar Equalization 

 Board has been respectfully requested to 

 cooperate with the committee in this in- 

 vestigation. 



The Senate Committee on Agriculture 

 has been directed to report on various 

 phases of the situation, including the rea- 

 sons for the sugar shortage, the price of 

 sugar and the prospects for relief. 



INCREASE IN PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION 

 IN UNITED STATES 



The per capita sugar consumption in 

 the United States for the first half of the 

 year, according to the figures compiled in 

 the second quarterly report issued by the 

 Sugar Equalization Board, shows a gain 

 for the last six months of four pounds over 

 the corresponding period in 19.18. 



Per capita consumption from January 

 1 to July 1 of this year, calculated on a 

 basis of a population of 105,000,000, was 

 46 pounds as against 42 pounds for the 

 first half of last year. 



COST AND FREIGHT PRICES FOR CUBAS 

 The folowing table was taken from ~\Yil- 

 lett & Gnni's Weekly Statistical Sugar 

 Trade Journal and gives an interesting ac- 

 count of the variations in cost and freight 

 prices for Cuban sugar from December, 

 1903, to January, 1919: 

 Average cost and freight price 



Cubas 20 years 2.9S6c 



Average cost and freight price 

 Cubas since Reciprocity Treaty, 



Dec. 27, 1903 3.190c 



Lowest cost and freight price Cubas 



since 1S90 was in 1902 1.565c 



Lowest cost and freight price Cubas 

 since Reciprocity Treaty was in 



1913 l.S75c 



Highest cost and freight price 

 Cubas since Reciprocity Treaty 

 was in 1917 6.500c 



