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Show 'SUGAR cane labor EID 40c PER DAY i MANILA. January 10. (By Mail.) I The production of sugar for export from the Philippines this season in estimated es-timated at 200.000 tons of centrifugal and 100.000 tons of muscovado by the .Sugar NeW8. K Fcntou Dlnd. editor of the Sugar News anil general man-mills man-mills in the Islands, thinks that many of the sugar mills will make a profit if'lhey get the current 3 1-2 cents a pound. I "We are back to normal in sugar and hish prices cannot be expected." lie said. Field wages have dropped from more than 50 cents a day last year to -10 cents and labor is abundant In the Island of Negros. wages are now about SO bents. That means that the next crop wlllfjbe planted far cheaper j.than tho crop now being harvested." |