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THE CUBA Ri:\"Ii:\V Ami Bulletin. 



THE STRIKE OF THE HAVANA CIGARMAKERS SERIOUSLY 

 AFFECTING A GREAT INDUSTRY. 



DECREASE IN EXTORTS OF CIGARS OWING TO 

 STRIKE OF CIGARMAKERS. 



The Strike of the cig.innakers employed 

 by the Trust, and the lockout of the work- 

 ers of the independent manufacturers have 

 caused a great falling-ofF in the export of 

 cigars from Havana. 



El Tobacco prints a comparative table 

 showing the numl)cr of cigars cxi)orted dur- 

 ing the first five months of 1907 and 1906. 

 The decrease in the value of the exports is 

 $2,355,035. The difference in the number of 

 cigars exported is 41,214,496. 



The 1907 exportations for the first five 

 months were 63.897.190 cigars, and for the 

 same period in 1906, 108,111,686. 



Cuba's cigarmaking industry seriosuly 

 affected. 



The cigarmaking industry of the Cuban 

 lately suflfered from a prolonged drought 

 capital is in a bad way. The Island has 

 and the tobacco crop will be much below 

 normal in point of quantity, but the quality 

 of the leaf promises to be exceptionally 

 fine. The grower will probably make up in 

 one way what he loses in the other, but this 

 won't help the consumer of Havana cigars 

 in the less expensive grades which it is 

 only reasonable to suppose will be advanced 

 in price. 



The cigarmaking Inisiness in Cuba is 

 being still more seriously and prejudicially 

 affected by another adverse circumstance, 

 ^lore and more of the leaf tobacco is being 

 sent to Key West and other points in the 

 United States for manufacture there. This 

 product escapes the high duties with which 

 cigars imported into the United States are 

 chargeable and can be put on the market 

 at more favorable figures than is possible in 



the case of the 1 hivana-made article, and 

 Cuban interests are feeling the effects of 

 this unequal competiti(jn. For that reason 

 Governor Magoon is being petitioned to im- 

 pose a heavy export duty on Cuban to- 

 bacco. — Philadelphia Press. 



THE CIGARMAKERS STRIKE. 



If the strike, which was brought becau.se 

 the manufacturers refused to pay their men 

 in .Vmerican gold instead of Spanish gold, 

 should be settled at once it would be a 

 month before conditions could become 

 normal. On account of climatic conditions 

 manufactured cigars cannot be kept in 

 Cuba, so that all of the surplus stock was 

 in storehouses in this country when the 

 strike started. So far there has been no ad- 

 vance in prices, as the competition among 

 importers is so keen that they have sup- 

 plied their customers at the old prices. — 

 Springfield (Mass.) Republican. 



THE CIGARMAKERS STRIKE. 



On June 24 the Henry Clay and Bock 

 Company offered its striking tobacco strio- 

 pers a 5 per cent, increase in their wages. 

 This represents the limit of their conc^.;- 

 sions. They declare that if it is not ic- 

 cepted thev will suspend operations indefi- 

 nitely. Their action has been officially en- 

 dorsed by the Manufacturers' Union. 



On the same day, G. G. Valez, represent- 

 ing the striking cigarmakers, notified Gov. 

 Magoon that they had decided to reject the 

 cigar manufacturers' proposal to arbitrate 

 and insisted on their original demand — that 

 the payment of wages be in American cur- 

 rency. The prospect of a settleinent of the 

 strike is now considered to be remote. — 

 New York Sun. 



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