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United Fruit Steamers.  Came in Tues. morn and leaves at midnite so you can immagine activity hereabouts on such days.  From shed where stored out of sun while being loaded, bunches go down to lighters for hauling out to ship, on womens heads, a bunch to a head, a matter of 100 yds or so.  They work at almost a trot some at least, as they are [[strikethrough]] painted [[/strikethrough]] paid 1 1/2 or only 1 penny Eng (= 2¢ Amer) per bunch for labor, and some try to make more trips back & forth than others. A man may get 1.20 (B.W.I.) for days work, and tis' said some women earn more for this days work than men doing other things, which means then they carry over 100 bags apiece. (Grower gets 6¢/lb for bannanas, minimum weight of bunch accepted by buyer is 18 lbs. but then will weigh maximum nearly twice that. One native made trip from far side of id. with 2 bunches totalling 43 lbs, only to have them rejected as to bruised to buy, thus he had long walk for nothing.  43 lbs at 6¢ would have netted him  2.58$ B.W.I.