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The Workingman's Advocate
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Cigar makers in Havana are attempting to organize a strike not for higher wages but to restore pre-tax law rates from earlier in the year, amid rising costs. City authorities support employers by requiring police certificates for new hires and threatening action against wage demanders. The outcome is pending but closely watched.
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It is announced from Havana that cigar makers of that city are making endeavors to induce their fellow workmen to declare themselves on a strike, not for higher wages in one sense of the word, but for the return of the [wages] they were receiving in the early part of the year, before the new Cuban tax law went into force.
At that time, on account of a fall in the export trade, they allowed their employers to reduce their wages. Now that the cause is removed, and they find themselves obliged to pay double for necessaries, as everything is increasing in value, the city authorities, however, take sides with the employers, and the Governor issued an order enjoining it upon the former not to take any operatives unless provided with certificate from the police authorities, and admonishing them that they shall be held responsible for failing to report every application made demanding higher wages, to be dealt with as a disturber of the public peace for the offense.
The result of this movement is not yet reported, but as it affects one of the leading trades of Cuba, it is watched with deep interest by all the people of that island.
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Havana
Outcome
the result of this movement is not yet reported
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Cigar makers of Havana are making endeavors to induce their fellow workmen to declare themselves on a strike, not for higher wages but for the return of the wages they were receiving in the early part of the year, before the new Cuban tax law went into force. At that time, on account of a fall in the export trade, they allowed their employers to reduce their wages. Now that the cause is removed, and they find themselves obliged to pay double for necessaries, as everything is increasing in value, the city authorities take sides with the employers, and the Governor issued an order enjoining it upon the former not to take any operatives unless provided with certificate from the police authorities, and admonishing them that they shall be held responsible for failing to report every application made demanding higher wages, to be dealt with as a disturber of the public peace for the offense. As it affects one of the leading trades of Cuba, it is watched with deep interest by all the people of that island.