Francisco Sugar Company.
Subject files, 1948-1962.
2.1 linear ft (5 boxes)
This series consists
of a general subject file which reflects, among other things, the company's
efforts to diversify its production both in terms of expanding the number
of crops grown and of increasing the number of by-products derived from
sugar and molasses. This effort, which apparently intensified through
the decade of the 1950's, was reaching its culmination with the nationalization
of the company's properties in 1961 and 1962.
Other files of general
interest to the researcher include those on labor, which shed light on
worker/management relations at the cusp of the Revolution, and those on
sanitation from the early 1950's which offer an excellent description of
the overall condition of both Central Francisco and Central Elia.
The expropriation of the company is documented in the files on INRA, agrarian
reform, and claims against the Cuban government.