Evening star

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At the same time it stirred a boom that

caused prices to rise rapidly, unsettling

the relatively simple subsistence econ- j

omy existing in most of the area.

With American entry into the w-ar

after Pearl Harbor more complex trouble

quickly developed. In most of the

region, which includes the independent

states of Cuba, Haiti and the Domini

can Republic as well as trie British

islands, British Guiana and British

Honduras, the French and Netherlands

possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin

Islands, sugar is the main crop. Nor

mally very little foodstuff is raised and

basic supplies as well as luxury foods

are imported. At the outbreak of hos

tilities the Caribbean was producing 16

per cent of the world's sugar.

workers were idle.

The major sugar-consuming nations

quickly imposed import restrictions on

sugar and rationed consumers. Boats

were needed for more valuable cargoes.

With the fall of France all European

markets were lost. The submarine war

fare cut deeply into the ships that were

still available for the sugar trade. On

docks and in the cane fields workers

were idle.

In many places in the Caribbean, far

from creating employment? the effect

of the war was to cause wholesale un

employment. This was particularly true

In Puerto Rico. There in August of

1942 more than 12 per cent of the pop

ulation was totally unemployed. To get

some idea of what this meant, in March

of 1933, at the bottom of the worst de

pression in American history, it was

estimated that 11 per cent of our popu

lation was jobless. In March, 1943,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1944). Washington, D.C., 1944-02-13. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1944-02-13/ed-1/?sp=36

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1944-02-13.