G. Haggard to the Cuban Secretary of State for Poreign Affairs. January 3. 1924 (p. 4): " Consequent on a Cuban Government decree of the 24th of November. 1922. large numbers of colored immigrants were required to be detained In the quarantine station at Santiago. The awful conditions.to which those persons were subjected on arrival were at once the subject of representations by this legation. and the Cuban Department of Health admitted to m in writing that the arrangements were Inadequate. " In fact. there were neither beds. sanitary accommodations. nor water. The immigrants slept. without distinction of sexes. on the cement floor. This situation. despite my complaints. continued without redress for months. if it does not still exist in Its main features. " In edditions. these persons are the object of exploitation by the reason of the difficulty and sometimes the Impossibility of their reclaiming from the quarantine authorities that portion due them as refund of che deposits collected from them on arrival. "I am finally to refer to the Inadequate protection of the colored West Indians contracted for work on the sugar estates. Perhaps the most significant example of this Is the free use by estate owners of Cuban Government guards to drive their workmen off the plantations rather than pay them wages.
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