CIGAR-MAKERS' PRIVILEGES.
The Havana cigar-makers, who formed a large proportion, of the audience that witnessed Jack Johnson' 6 defeat, rank among the best-paid workers in the world. They certainly deserve high wages, for not a trace of machinery ie to be soon in- their factories. Without a mould or binder or any pattern to follow, a Cuban cigar-maker can turn out 50, 75, or 100 cigars a day. absolutely identical in shape, lize, and weight, the only implements used being a block of niajjle wood and a small curved knife. While a-t work he i insists on being amused, and his amusement takes tho form of being read to aloud. At every cigar factory in Havana you will find a reader, engaged and paid by the men, and regaling his audience with the daily paper or_ a novel. Some of theso readers receive as much as £10 a week, and many were elected to the first Cuban. Legislature.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 13
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