CUBA'S LABOUR LAW
Agitation Among American Business Men , jNEW YORK, Feb. 20. Tlie Neiv York Times' Havtna correspoudent says information that tho iirilish-Cuban trade treaty, which haa just been signed, permita British hrins, established. m Guba freely to employ Lheir own nationals, as the sole exseption to Guba's highly nationalis^c labour laws, is causing much agitation ( umong American business-men. Nol copies of the treaty are available, both: the Government and the British Lega-j tion making every efl'ort to keep thej contents sccretNuntiJ it goes to thcj Senate l'or ratiiieatiou. Americans iiarticularly resent the dis-j crimination, in view of the advantagesj Cuba gained in the ' reciprocity treaty j with the United Btates and the sugari qnota which Ameriea granted the island. They expressed the hope that the same privilcges would be accorded Auiei'icans when the present reciprocity! treaty terniinate.s iu Augnst.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 8
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