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Till-: CUBA R E V 1 E W 



\K>V i;ill.lH.\(iS: Tli.T.- is apimn'mly im Ictuii in liu- imuiiicr of luisiness 

 aiKl piiviiti- luiiUliii^'s p>iii;i up in lliiviiiia ami its sulmrlts, ait ii<>ii;rli Hi*- I'lvction of 

 h.msrs to n-iit is iioi i<iH'piii;: pa<t> witli tlie iiicivas.- in i.opulatioii. Consequently 

 lioiiscs aiv vt'iy scan*- and n-nls iiavi- in many cases more tliaii (loiililed sinee pre- 

 war days. It is rei«.rted tiiat the same New Yorlv liotel interests wideli acquired 

 tin- llotfl Sevilla. reopene«l Uy tliem on Januaiy Ist, liave also secured the 

 privilege of const ru<tinj,' an«l oiH'ratinj: the lari^e hotel which is to he huilt at the 

 Playa dc Marianao. Havana's Itathinj: hea<h. We have previously mentioned the 

 pretentions plans now well under way on the part of the real estate company cou- 

 troliinj: that property, whi<h include the erection of a larf^e liot.-l. hut now aiiiiarently 

 insti'ad of Imiidin;: and operatin;: it themselves, they have liiiiicd ii oxer to the New 

 York company to handle. A lar;.'e Casino is heinj: erected mi lain! lyinir hetween 

 the riaya snlidivision and the Country Cluh, and tlu- tourist hotel heing put ui) hy 

 Mendoza \ Company on their suhdivision adjoinin;: the I'laya tract is also well under 

 way. allhonjrh it will not he ciiiiiilered in time for uccup.ition durin.i: the invseiit 

 s»'ason. 



A Presidential decre«' suspending the constitutional guarantees for a period of 

 sixty days was puhlished in an extra edition of the Offitittl (iiizt ttc on Fehruary 1st. 



This a<-tion followed a refusal of the striking dock workers to accept the plan of 

 arhitration demanded hy President Menocal and agreed to hy the employers. 



Press dispat«'hes from Havana reported the end of the vaiinus strikes in Culia on 

 Pehruary 4th. An agreement was reached on that date between Secretary of (Jov- 

 ermnenl Hernande/ and a connnittee of striking dock workers under whicli the siriker.s 

 were to return to work at the same rate of pay which was in effect when the strike 

 began tive weeks ago. The secretary pronuseil that members of the union imprisoned 

 under tin- suspension of the constitutional guarantees would be set free when the 

 strikers returned to work and that he would aid tiie snikers in ;:ieir demands for 

 increased wages. 



PAN-AMERICAN AERONAUTIC 

 CONGRESS 



The" .\ero Club of .\iii;'ri<-a ainiouuced 

 on .January istb tliat the third Pan- 

 Ana-rican Aeronauiii- Congress will lie 

 held in Atlantii- City next .lune. in con- 

 junction with the Aerial Touring Con- 

 gress. It had been intended to hold the 

 Congress in Havana. The change in plans 

 is due to labor anil transportation dif- 

 ficulties in Eurojie and in Cuba. Strikes 

 have held up tlu- slnpment of airplanes 

 that were to have been shipped to Cuba 

 from Great Britain, France and Italy. 

 The Congress was to have been held ia 

 Havana next month. 



Thii-ty-twn finmti-ies will be rei>resented 

 at the Congress. Most of the commis- 

 sioners were to have started for Havana 

 next week, lait on account of the failure 

 of maiuifacturers to deliver the airiiiane-: 

 n <hange was necessarv. 



METRIC SYSTEM 



The following resolution was unain- 

 inously ]iassed ai the final general se.s- 

 siou of the second Pan .\merican Finan- 

 cial CdUfereiKe held in Washington. 

 I). »'., .Tanuary lit to L'4, Ptl'o: 



XI\'. Ktsdlnd. That the conference 

 reconmu-nds that the metric .system of 

 weights and measures be universally em- 

 ployed, and that. i)euding the attainment 

 of that end. articles weighed and marked 

 and shipfting documents prepared, accord- 

 ing to the system of weights and meas- 

 ures now jirevailiug in the United States, 

 shoidd be accinnpanied with statements 

 giving the e(|uivalents under the metric 

 system. 



TOBACCO CROP 

 According to the estimates of the De- 

 partment <if Agriculture of the T'nited 

 States, the next toliacco <roi) i.f Cuba will 

 be worth $."0,f if H »,OflO. 



