Types of work classified as dangerous included cleaning the boiler and the press house, tinplating the grills and carrying more than 25 kilos for more than 300 metres.
Nobody used different arithmetics to count apples, sheep, francs, or kilos.
That year the sprayed trees yielded five kilos per tree instead of the one or two they had been getting.
The chicleros have also witnessed fluctuations in the price of chicle, around $42 a kilo during the last four seasons.
It is beautifully designed, printed and illustrated, of large format (430x300mm) and, at 4.5 kilos, suits the library or desk rather better than the lap.
The average pick is around 20-25 kilos a day.
Casual workers are paid for every 200 kilos picked.
In 1933 production had dropped dramatically to under 700,000 kilos.
