And with the valuable cooperation of the SUGAR PRODUCERS OF CUBA, an institution that regroups  many of the largest sugar producers in the formerly democratic Cuba , we take up this task,  in the hope of being able to tell the world  the truth about the Cuban sugar industry, in the democratic past that Cuba lived  from the inception of the Cuban Republic in the year 1902,   until this present  laden with uncertainties and where the Cuban communist government has carried out,  with a policy that has failed in the entire world,  the almost total liquidation of this powerful industry which was the earner of the major portion of foreign currencies  that entered the coffers of the Cuban nation.

The Cuban Sugar Industry has been, since its creation in the time of domination by the  Spanish Empire on the beautiful island of the Caribbean, Cuba, the main source of foreign exchange to  the Cuban national economy.

It has been, therefore, the regrouping center of hundreds of thousands of sugar workers, industrial and  agricultural, up to five hundred thousand of them,  that in the measure in which this sugar industry was growing the benefits received by workers grew likewise.

Naturally it was necessary to create an organization that  would be capable of regrouping these thousands of workers, industrial and agricultural, so that with a national and local direction center in each sugar mill there would be a labor union which constituted the link between the enterprise producing the sugar, millowners as well as cane growers, and the workers.

Thus the NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SUGAR WORKERS OF CUBA (FNTA) was born.

As it is natural, in this our presentation to typewriter strokes,  we narrate partially what  the Sugar Federation is about.

We think that in next articles we will begin to explain the successful operation of this industry in the era of the republic.

Why Cuba became the sugar bowl of the world.

How  the laws created that made possible a perfect harmony between workers and sugar producers (mill owners and cane growers) were created.

What benefits the sugar workers received through the Law of the Sugar Differential. How the salary of the sugar workers was paid; and why is the current failure of the sugar  crops under the communist regime of government.

And we advance that in our next articles we are going to analyze the real situation of the Cuban Sugar Industry currently; its future and measures to adopt to return to normalize it.

Until later, thus.

Thank you very much,

Prisiciliano Falcón S.                            José A. Costa                                        Rafael Naranjo
Secretary  General                           Recording Secretary                               Organization Secretary
 

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