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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY 



CIGAR FACTORIES CLOSE 



The financial and industrial crisis which 

 will take place in Europe has been felt in 

 Havana, when on August 2d, all the factories 

 of the Henry Clay and Bock and Company, 

 which controls about eighteen factories, 

 manufacturers of about twenty brands, were 

 ordered closed, thereby throwing more than 

 6,000 men out of work. 



Nearly all the foreign orders for cigars 

 have been cancelled. 



Paralization of the cigar industry will also 

 stop work in the box, hthograph and other 

 alhed industries of the tobacco industry 

 which will throw out some 600 to 800 men 

 additional. 



The independent factories have not yet 

 taken any steps to close their chops, but 

 when they do it will mean something Uke 

 12,000 to 15,000 idle workmen. 



Five thousand bales of tobacco which 

 were to have been shipped to Europe on the 

 North German Lloyd liner Nekar were 

 ordered taken on shore again owing to the 

 fact that the shipment could not be insured. 



WILL NOT EXHIBIT 



A resolution recen ly adopted by the Cigar 

 and Cigarett ■ Manufacturers' Union is to 

 the effect that Cuban cigar manufacturers, 

 at least the independent factories, will not 

 exhibit their goods at the coming San 

 Francisco-Panama Exposition which opens 

 at San Franc sco next January. 



The following firms were represented: 

 H. Upmann and Co.; Behrens and Co., 

 Rodriguez and Argnelles, F. E. Fonseca, 

 Fernandez, Garcia and Co., C. C. Murias, 

 and many other factories had their repre- 

 sentatives present. Others sent their ad- 

 hesion to any cause the meeting would 

 choose to adopt. 



The Secretary of Agriculture urged that 

 the Union exhibit even at the sacrifice of 

 time and money. In answer the Union 

 adopted a resolution embodying their ob- 

 jections, which states (1) that the present 

 condition of the cigar industry was bad and 

 threatens to become worse as they had 

 made 10,000,000 cigars less than in the 

 previous year; (2) That the government 



An'Havana cigar~factory. 



The 500 men turn out about one million cigars a month, 

 room in which 450 men work. 



To the left is another large 



