Re Peyno

• Jurisdiction: Cuba
• Date: 06 March 1936
• Docket Number: Case No. 56
• Court: Supreme Court (Cuba)

Cuba, Supreme Court.

Case No. 56

In re Peyno.

Naturalization — Status of Naturalized Citizens — The Law of Cuba.

The Facts.—Decrees 2583 and 2977 of 1933 provided for certain preferences in employment in Cuba of native Cuban citizens. The twenty-eight petitioners concerned in this case asked the Court to declare unconstitutional such sections of those Decrees as distinguished naturalized Cuban citizens.

Held: that the provisions complained of were unconstitutional. Decree 2583 required agricultural, industrial or mercantile enterprises to employ at least 50 per cent, of natives, with an equal percentage of wages and salaries, leaving the other 50 per cent, at the disposal of naturalized citizens or, possibly, of aliens. So far from creating any capricious inequality, it put an end to one which already existed. The native Cuban had an indisputable right to equal treatment with others not only in theory but...