canecutters

We never did that with canecutters even during the worst idealistic times.

PROCEEDINGS OF DEFERRED 3RD CONGRESS CONTINUE 1986

We never paid canecutters a set salary because what would happen is just what Raul mentioned: People would come down from the mountains to cut cane.

PROCEEDINGS OF DEFERRED 3RD CONGRESS CONTINUE 1986

Province alone -- when it was a single province, prior to the politico-administrative division -- needed 70,000 or 80,000 canecutters, if

CASTRO PARTICIPATED IN ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY MEETI 1985

During the capitalist period the canecutters and the cart drivers, and all those people got up every morning and worked 12, 14, or even 15 hours.

CASTOR DELIVERS SPEECH AT ECONOMIC MEETING 1985

[Begin recording] In 1970, 350,000 canecutters were required, and this number was required every year to produce 6 million tons of sugar; Camaguey

CASTRO PARTICIPATED IN ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY MEETI 1985

One proof of how much productivity has increased is the fact that only 12 years ago 350,000 canecutters were employed in the sugar harvest and today, to produce much more sugar, less than 100,000 are employed.

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF CUBAN REVOLUTION 1984

Many of these canecutters have now become harvester operators and others have gone to work in the areas of construction, industry, or others.

15TH CONGRESS OF CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS CONCLUDES 1984

We were impressed by the million-mark canecutters, the two times million-mark brigades of Ciego de Avila, of Havana City Province, the Ernst

15TH CONGRESS OF CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS CONCLUDES 1984

There was no transportation, not a single clean lodging for the canecutters.

PEASANT DAY CEREMONY IN YARA 1984

It is sufficient to point out that in 1970, 350,000 manual canecutters were used, and in this harvest of 1984, about 30,000 were used -- that is, less than

PEASANT DAY CEREMONY IN YARA 1984