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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview16muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REVIEW 33
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Central Tacajo. GUADELOUPE In the opinion of experienced planters the sugar crop for 1918 will probably fall short of the average production of 40,000 tons. This is due to the dry weather of December and January, which took a great deal of moisture and saccharine matter from the canes. The deterioration was augmented by the failure of the centrals to commence operations as usual on January 1. There haa been some unrest among the laborers, who aemandert higher wages, and none of the mills would start work \mt 1 the matter had been settled. At a meeting held on January 21 the repre- sentatives of all interested classes agreed that the wages and prices to be paid during the harvesting and grinding of the present crop shovdd be as follows: Wages on plantations —irregular day laborers, $0.56 per day, an increase of $0,085; laborers working 10 full days per fortnight, $0.63 per day, an in- crease of $0,085; wages in centrals, an increase of $0,085 per day. The price of cane was fixed at $7.14 per metric ton (2,204 pounds), an increase of $1.01 over 1917. This price is based on the net value of the sugar and molasses contained in a ton of cane, ana as the Government may decide to pay more than 100 francs per hectoliter of rum made from molasses ($0.73 per gallon at normal ex- change), it has been agreed that the profits resulting from such increase shall be equally divided between the planters and the cen- trals. The entire production of sugar has been re- quisitioned by the Government at the price which was paid last year, viz., 77 francs per 100 kilos ($6.74per 100 pounds). Some 15,000 tons will be kept on the island to provide for the local consumption until the commence- ment of the 1919 crop, and the remainder will be sent to France. The retail price for sugar has been fixed at 1 franc per kilo ($0,088 per pound). During 1916 and 1917 the great demand in France caused an increased production of rum in this colony. The demand for this product being much less than heretofore, it is understood that the Government will now take measures to discourage the distiUation of rum from pure cane juice.

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