The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28

| attention. And when he talks il is equally
! imperative that he gesticulate until his
| hands and arms are q mere Pickering blur
about his head and body. Now, this char
| acteristic OF the race l. not conducive tn
| the rapid manufacture Of cigars
! To meet this popularity of temperament
on the part of the Cuban, it is the custom
| 20 employ for each room in n factory a
reader whose duty II is to keep the attention
OF the employees occupied by reading to
| them constantly while they are at work
and thus prevent them from talking and
| as matter OF course, gestcula,ing tn.
Two strikes above mentioned grew out Of
| dlscussons over these readers. In one in
stance the men employees in a factory
wanted the reader To read cert ain book
The women. for very good and sufi lent
| reasons, did not want him to read that
book or any other like it. The result was
interminabe wrangling, screaming and
gesticulating, with the whole factory knock
ing of work in a general strike as the up
| shot.
In the other instance the trouble arose
because the reader Of a factory insisted
upon standing in the hallway OF the factory
when at the. close of work he collected his
dues from the employees for his services.
This was strictly against the rules of the
establishment. for the reason that it meant
small riot twice day in the hail. owing 10
tn, circumstance that it is quite an impossi-
bhty for the genuine Cuban cigarrnaker
| TO engage in any transaction. no matter
how trining, without becoming rrensied
| To a point where a strait jacket would
really be the only treatment at all adequate
In ba b., - III
would not let the reader collect his dues
! in the hallway.
The result was a meeting Of the en-
| ployees of the factory compared with
which a simultaneous outbreak of all the
violent wards of Bedam would have ap-
| peared a. an orderly demonstration. There
| was strike as a matter OF course.
sTRIKE-MAKERs ExILEs.
The reader In this instance was some
| thing more than reader. He was an
1 agitator As well. II will be remembered
that certain people in Tampa have an origi-
| nal and peremptory way Of disposing Of
agitators. In the great strike Of 1890 four
or five Of them were seized in the night,
| put on board a vessel bound for Honduras
and advised not to return to Tampa. The
central figure in this particular strike case
WIS recently put on board steamer bound
for Key West and advised not to come
| back In both cases the strikes ended
shortly after the agitators' disappearance.
The best people of Tampa, OF course,
deprecatc any such highhanded measures.
They deprecate strikes and they disap-
prove OF men who precipitate strikes for
trivial causes, but they have no sympathy
with such methods Of dealing even with the
most undesirable characters who may
come to the town. The city Of Tampa il
excellently governed and the people take
just pride In the security Of person and
property which exists there.
The most serious setback the CIGAR
probably to have increased from about g. 900
| to the neighborhood Of 10000. to which
may be added the employees Of several
large cigar box factories.
oTHER INDUSTRIES.
To tell the story Of the rise and progress
| OF the cigar -ruan ufacturing industry Is to
tell the story OF Tampa itself. II In around
that nucleus that the city lar &c and thriving
| a. II now Is, has grown. But cigar manu-
| featuring Ia no longer the only prop on
which Tampa leans The thing that made
Tampa place well adapted to the manu-
facture Of Cuban tobacco cigars was that il
was near the tobacco plantations and had a
means Of swift shipment to the millions OF
consumers in the North.
Precisely the same reason has made
| Tampa an admirable place to which to de-
liver and handle the vast quantities Of fruits,
berries and garden truck which are now
, grown In the Manatee River district and In
close proximity to the city itself. The soil