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Show OPEN MARKET FOR SUGAR IS DEMANDED HAVANA, Oct. 19. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A manifesto issued .tonight .to-night by the organizing committee of the recentl' formed Cuban Sugar Manufacturers' Man-ufacturers' and Planters' association, addressed to tho American people and press, demands an open market for its products. The association protests against an attempt arbitrarily to restrict sugar prices, and declares that if Cuba cannot can-not obtain adequate prices or is not given ''an ample margin of protection," protec-tion," decreased production of sugar automatically will take place, thus presenting pre-senting a serious danger to all nations. The manifesto complains that the Cuban Cu-ban producers did not participate in the $30,000,000 reserve accumulated by the sugar equalization board and points out that the increase in the price of sugar is not in proportion to the increase in-crease in the cost of general articles of consumption imported into Cuba. Cuba, the document continues, was disappointed in its hope of holding the allied European market and therefore should not be placed under the restrictions restric-tions of the last two crops, but should obtain compensation in the open market mar-ket to offset the excessively high cost of commodities purchased in the United States. |