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gear was damaged and the employees threatened if they did not ‘fall in’ with the crowd. At Saddlers Village the crowd came to a standstill outside of a local rum and grocer’s shop. A labourer belonging to one of the neighboring estates was ordered to join the crowd. He refused and was struck over the head with a piece of iron piping by a man of powerful built and fell to the ground.... Buckleys About 3 p.m. a large crowd, estimated at 200 or 300 armed with sticks entered the estate yard of Buckleys Estate. The overseer was in the yard and he made a report to the manager’s house and called Mr. Dobridge, the manager... The crowd proceeded to haul out an estate cart which was in the yard. Mr. Dobridge, accompanied by his foreman overseer, went out into the yard in front of his dwelling house, both being armed with a shotgun loaded with No.1 shot. Mr. Dobridge ordered the crowd out of the estate yard. Immediately threats of violence were made and stones thrown at the two of them… Mr. Dobridge, fearing an attack upon his life discharged one barrel of his gun at the crowd, aiming low. He swore that he aimed at the feet ........Three person received shot wounds... The wounds were of a superficial nature. Mr. Dobridge and his overseer retreated into his dwelling house and stood at a window on the veranda facing the crowd who by this time had retreated to the main road in front of his dwelling house and the estate yard. It could be seen from the street that both Mr. Dobridge and his overseer were armed. Mr. Dobridge admits having a rifle as well as two revolvers on his premises besides the two shotguns. An armed police contingent of eleven men, under the command of Major Duke, accompanied by the Magistrate Bell, both also armed with rifles, arrived about 3.45 p.m. The police were lined up in the estate yard facing the crowd at about ten yards distant from them. The Magistrate and Major Duke went amongst the crowd urging them to separate and depart to their homes, but with absolutely no response… 123
The Report of the Chief Justice continued the story: On their way to Buckley’s Estate, and near to its environs, some of the crowd approached the Magistrate and Major Duke, and demanded the arrest of Mr. Dobridge and his overseer, Mr. Pond, some alleging that Mr. Pond had shot some of the crowd, others that it was Mr. Dobridge. Thereupon Major Duke left and interviewed Mr. Dobridge at his house. On his return, he spoke to the parties who had made the complaint, and told the that if they would disperse and some of them would come to the police station with him along with the injured parties, he would take down their statements and fully inquire into the matter and see that justice was done. This did not please the crowd and they remained shouting out at intervals: “We want Dobridge. We want Pond, he don’t belong here and has no right to shoot anybody. (Mr. Pond was a native of Montserrat)... At or about 5 p.m. Major Duke and Mr. Bell left the force alternately with the object of making reports, the former to arrange for the assistance of the local Defence Force and the Defence Reserve Force. Mr. Bell brought back with him Rev. Williams, Moravian Minister, Mr. Manchester, President of the Workers League, and Mr. John, a prominent merchant in the town of Basseterre, in order that they might speak to the people and get them to disperse. The Honorable Clement Malone, a member of the Executive Council and a leading and influential member of the Bar, spoke to the crowd, urging them to disperse and telling them of their error in attempting to use force for the purpose of getting increased wages. The crowd listened only to the urging of Mr. Manchester and a large number left with him, but apparently none of those immediately in front of Mr. Dobridge’s house. The other speakers do not appear to have had any effect on the crowd. Indeed, the Rev. Williams, who is well known and who has a large congregation, was jeered at, and told that this was no church and no place for services. The other armed forces arrived shortly before 6 p.m. At this time the crowd, which at a low estimate was given at 400 to 500 men, women and children, was getting more and more hostile and was shouting out threats of violence towards Mr. Dobridge and Mr. Pond. The 124
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J. N. FRANCE ______________________
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© 2015 Published by The National A
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Preface The Working Class struggle
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1 EARLY VISION Where is this countr
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With the passing of time, social an
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This early attempt at workers' orga
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post as a school teacher to succeed
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For several years the pressure was
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and school houses are being used fo
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housing condition arising from the
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3 PREPARING THE GROUND The thought
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That impressive English story told
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they had accumulated £28 with whic
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Commons that since the colony of th
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1922, some of the members of Legisl
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On 30 th August 1932 the Dominica T
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country and I regard British Guiana
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Mr. Marryshow then raised his tone
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Delegates to the West India Confere
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The conference opened its proceedin
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protests can be ignored with impuni
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Closer Union Commission widened to
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He said it was a privilege to him t
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possible, an education that must be
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and suffering, and in such a condit
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The land forming the Hospital compo
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ing able to grant the request of th
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prison sentences for what was commo
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sinned against the Factory. Theirs
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9 FROM PAUPER RELIEF TO PROVIDENT B
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1954 declared the first Monday in M
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it has proposed to interfere will b
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Change When the League came on the
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Children of the working class. 61
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had just dumped out a load of cane
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There was no reply from London. Twe
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president. When the delegation gave
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Under the law of 1937 only a limite
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Workers who would have benefited fr
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Page 98 and 99: gravity of the situation to the att
Page 100 and 101: On 13 th December, 1934 an unusuall
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Page 108 and 109: vance towards the goal of the Feder
Page 110 and 111: members of the Council. Mr. Marrysh
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Page 124 and 125: The people in those days took it fo
Page 126 and 127: Sugar Factory workers were “chast
Page 128 and 129: At West Farm the marchers were prev
Page 130 and 131: Some of the men, it was alleged, we
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Page 140 and 141: 16 THE FIRST ELECTION The clash of
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Page 158 and 159: 18 A STAKE IN THE COUNTRY Land owne
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Page 164 and 165: age. In the following month, Januar
Page 166 and 167: 19 MARCUS GARVEY IN ST. KITTS St. K
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Commission headed by Sir Charles Fe
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President wrote, The issues are too
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the sea. The effects were terrible
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mendous crowd packed the Mutual Imp
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territory, the success of the past
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the notice, was that employees were
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