Cuban Jews face the prospect of a Passover without matzoths, unleavened bread, because laborers in the port here are on strike, making it impossible to unload incoming goods.
Thirty thousand pounds of matzoths, on consignment to a merchant named Isaac Katz, were brought in by the liner Morro Castle, but were returned to New York, when it was found they could not be unloaded.
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