. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 11 It is orobable that Presi- Labor dent Gomez will soon be Troubles. confronted with serious la- bor difficulties. Strikes have taken place at Cienfuegos and Cardenas and among the stevedores in Havana. The striking stevedores at Cienfuegos and the workmen of the San Manuel es- tate went on strike on January 11 for an eight-hour day. It was settled in favor of the men when President Gomez tele- graphed his earnest wish to have the strug- gle terminate. A general strike is now expected to ob- tain an equalization of working hours. One of
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 11 It is orobable that Presi- Labor dent Gomez will soon be Troubles. confronted with serious la- bor difficulties. Strikes have taken place at Cienfuegos and Cardenas and among the stevedores in Havana. The striking stevedores at Cienfuegos and the workmen of the San Manuel es- tate went on strike on January 11 for an eight-hour day. It was settled in favor of the men when President Gomez tele- graphed his earnest wish to have the strug- gle terminate. A general strike is now expected to ob- tain an equalization of working hours. One of the first vessels to The be built for the use of the Harbor government of Cuba is a Mail Boat, harbor mail boat, known as the Correos, built at Croton, N. Y. In Havana the vessels do not tie up at wharves, but are loaded from lighters and the policy of the government requires the use of a mail boat visiting the ships at intervals, collecting and distributing mail. The Correos, which resembles a towboat and also a small river boat, is admirably fitted for this purpose. She is seventy- two feet in length, with a beam of 15 feet and gross tonnage of thirty-three Carretera de Pinar del Rio caminos viejo y nuevo. ROAD MAKING IN CUBA. The new road in the background; the old road in the foreground. President - elect Gomez's The Cabinet Cabinet is as follows. This and is his own official announce- Secretaries ment: Secretary of Government, Nicholas Alberdi. Secretary of State, Justo Garcia Velez. Secretary of Finance, Emarcellino Diaz de Villcga. Secretary of Justice, Luis Octavia Di- vine. Secretary of Sanitation, Dr. Mathias Duque. Secretary of Public Works, Benito La- gureuela. Secretary of Education, Dr. Ramon Meza. S'ecretary of Agriculture, Ortolio Foyo. General Eusebio Hernandez was origi- nally selected by President-elect Gomez as Secretary of Government, but declined to accept the place on account of differences concerning a sub-secretary. The following assistant secre
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