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Show CIGAR MAKERS GET INCREASE SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 20. (Correspondence.) Fifteen thousand j cigar makers and tobacco workers have returned to work In the nineteen factories of the Porto Kican American Ameri-can Tobacco company after their representatives rep-resentatives signed an agreement with: officers of the company. This ends the longest and most general cigar strike the island has ever had. The wage increase provides for the payment of $1 50 per thousand advance on" all sizes and shapes of cigars while the strippers were granted an increase of approximately 50 per cent. The increased in-creased wage will amount to more than $600,000 a year, It Is estimated. The strike had been practically continuous con-tinuous since the middle of last September Sep-tember and caused a loss estimated at $5,000,000. |