canecutter

Because when you have a sugar canecutter that can cut 8,000 arrobas, it is doing the work of 40 men.

MEETING OF MINBAS 1987

Because the mechanized canecutter operator performs 40 times more than one man, or perhaps 30 times more, and you pay the same amount for the same quota, for the same amount of cane to the man who cuts it manually.

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

[Castro] Has anyone ever been opposed that the mechanized canecutter operator collect according to the cane he cuts?

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

I remember those days in which Che, who was the industry minister, tried to create the first mechanical canecutter prototype.

CLOSING OF FARMERS CONGRESS 1987

No matter how bad the mechanized canecutter is it can cut what 10 Reinaldo

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

Imagine that all of a sudden you paid the mechanized canecutter the same salary you pay the manual canecutter.

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

What capitalist country can have as many engineers as it chooses to have not only in top level positions but also at grassroot levels and even operating a machine, an automatic lathe, or a mechanized canecutter?

30 JANUARY MINBAS MEETING 1987

Not only that but at a certain time a wage differential [coefficient ramal] was established to the cane in which that millionaire canecutter ... [changes thought] and the proof is that many of those millionaire brigade members have cars.

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

You cannot pay the mechanized canecutter operator eight times as much.

CASTRO PRESIDES OVER CTC PLENUM FINAL SESSION 1987

It affects the canecutter, the sugar technician, the refinery owner -- it affects everyone and it affects us.

CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH ECUADORAN JOURNALISTS 1985