The Meanest Cigar Maker Ever?

(Cigar Cyclopedia) ... Trainees, for instance, who did not do their work perfectly were locked into a room of the factory overnight. When a fire broke out one night, two of them burned to death, since [no]body could hear their screams.
And after Gener died in 1900, there was a newspaper report of his funeral, in which "employees gave vent to their anger by throwing dead cats, rats and dogs at the funeral procession from the surrounding roof terraces." Continued

Pictured: Making "pure Havanas," the world's most famous cigars, largest factory of Havana, Cuba, c1903 (Library of Congress).