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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Many players in the United States who have been familiar with the development of 

 these Hnks have announced tlieir intention to visit Havana this winter. They and others 

 will be made to feel quite at home in the pleasant club and surroundings. 



While the iinancial side of this club has been developed upon a purely social and 

 local basis, and there are the usual restrictions as to membership, yet full provision has 

 been made for visitors and it is recognized that membership in a golf or social club and 

 devotion to the game of golf is ordinarily a sufficient card of introduction and visitors 

 of that class are desired. 



The breezes and trade winds which blow across Cuba make golf and indeed all out- 

 door sports possible and enjoyable the year around. There is none of the excessive 

 heat of the north — the thermometer seldom reaches 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Havana, 

 and in Winter ranges from 70 to SO degrees. The winter and spring in Cuba is always 

 delightful. 



The officers of the Country Club of Havana are as follows: Frederick Snare, president; 

 Robert M. Orr and Norman H. Davis, vice-presidents; Regino Truffin, treasurer; P. S. 

 Erricson, secretary; James M. Hopgood, assist, treasurer. 



Cuba's Labor Question 



LABOR SAVING DEVICES ESSENTIAL 



The Cuban government insists that the 

 employees in the factories shall be natives 

 to the extent of at least 75 per cent. The 

 natfve labor, stimulated in this way to seek 

 factory positions, is less willing to engage 

 in ordinary field work. To overcome this, 

 the great sugar factory interests are en- 

 deavoring to secure colonos, or tenants 

 who will grow cane on land belonging to 

 the factor}^ or even on their own lands, 

 provided the factory will furnish more or 

 less of the means necessary to keep the 

 work going from one season to the next. 

 With the increasing acreage put in cane in 

 this and other ways the labor problem be- 

 gins to present itself in Cuba with increas- 

 ing intensity and with a suggestion, if not 

 the certainty, of very serious difficulties, 

 and this at an early date, in the way of 

 getting a competent supply of labor. Ever 

 since the abolition of slavery in Cuba some 

 forty years ago, the scarcity of labor has 

 gradually increased. At that time a pro- 

 duction of 600,000 or 700,000 tons of sugar 

 was considered a large crop for Cuba, and 

 now that this production has been tripled 

 and with no material increase of the popu- 

 lation of the island, it is manifest that the 

 only way to bring the sugar industry up to 

 its present development has been by virtue 

 of the use of the many labor-saving ap- 

 pliances that are now being used in the 

 sugar industry. 



So far as Cuba is concerned, we here 

 are profoundly interested in the labor 

 question there, and we are led to believe 

 that year by year the labor question will 

 become more and more serious to our ad- 

 venturous Americans who are engaging so 

 largely in the sugar industry there.— 

 Louisiana Planter. 



fish and they want to be remunerated for 

 the period lasting about a month and a 

 half which they are compelled to lose 

 yearly on account of bad weather. They 

 also want recognition of their union. 



The fishermen receive no wages, says 

 the Post. The owners of the ships equip 

 and put their vessels at the disposal of the 

 fishermen, who receive a stipulated price 

 per hundred pounds for all the fish they 

 catch without reference to species. 



The owners of the fishing boats refused 

 to consider the men's demands. 



Unfortunately for the men while they were 

 disputing the shipowners had quietly secured 

 a full crew for their vessels and the men 

 gave up the fight. 



CIGAR MANUFACTURERS ANXIOUS 



The labor question has become a subject 

 for serious discussion among the Havana 

 cigar manufacturers. The United States 

 Tobacco Journal says in a recent issue : 



"The question of the scarcity of good 

 cigarmakers is getting to be a burning one 

 with most of the manufacturers. Some of 

 the leading men in the business have al- 

 ready met and talked the matter over se- 

 riously among themselves. 



"One manufacturer said: 'We have got 

 to make some new arrangement so that the 

 apprentices can earn something while they 

 are learning, for if not, we cannot expect 

 them to learn, as under the old arrange 

 ments the boys were fed, clothed ' and 

 lodged.' " 



COMPENSATION OF FISHERMEN 



The fishermen of Havana demand 75 

 cents more a hundred pounds for their 



Ninety per cent of the drug clerks em 

 ployed in Havana, members of the "Aso- 

 ciacion de Practicos de Farmacia," are de- 

 manding that the "six o'clock closing law" 

 be enforced. 



Drug stores are allowed to- remain open 

 until ten o'clock under the Arteaga Law, 

 but there is an amendment for two shifts^ 

 and this is what the clerks want enforced. 

 Thev refuse to work more than ten hours. 



