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When he made man he said, ‘By the sweat of your brow ye all eat.’ from that time man has been on his own responsibility - on his own legs. If he does not think out his own way of life, he will fail, and who do you think is to shed a tear for him, when by his own ignorance he has reduced him self to disgrace? It is not necessary to envy the other man because whatever he has done, you can do, if you go about it in the right way. Those who stoop to envy, steal and kill and commit crimes, breaking the civil law and the law of nature are upsetting everything. But that is not the way to get things. You must and get things for yourself… A Man among Men The black man who threw a bombshell into the white domination of the Negro during the first quarter of the 20 th Century gave his own life as an example when he addressed his fellow men in St. Kitts in November 1937. His newspaper The Negro World was banned in Trinidad, in parts of Africa and in several other parts of the world. He was not permitted to enter certain countries, as he was considered a public danger. But Marcus Garvey was not in the least deterred. In his speech at the M.I.S. Hall he said, When we cringe and commit crimes we bring down God. We must live up to the dignity and Honour of His intelligence by possessing our souls and using our minds. It is no excuse to say you are too poor and down-trodden. I put myself before you as an example. I refuse to be in rags. I am determined to be a man among men. I was born fifty years ago in the West Indian Country town of Jamaica where black men have no special advantages but disadvantages; where you are slated to be a cowherd or labourer, a blacksmith or shoemaker, etc. I looked at the system that man fixed up for me and I said it did not suit me. If you have not the ability to fix yourself up, the other man is going to fix you up - and some of you are darned well fixed up right now. (Prolonged laughter and cheers.) And you will stay fixed up until you change your minds. God has given every man a mind with possibilities for development. It does not matter what your father and mother were before you. You can retrieve yourself and be a man although your parents may have been criminals. God has not made you with a criminal mind. Don’t allow anybody to use your mind. I do not mean, by that, that you must 159
not have leaders. But when it comes to your individual lives “fix up yourselves’, or somebody may want to make monkeys out of you.... Whatever you want in the world go after getting it yourself. No man will get something for you, that he will want for himself. Any man who tells you he loves you better than he loves himself, watch him. Get a club and give him a crack, for he means no good. A lot of people today are suffering from their own faults. If you know the world you would know that the greatest men had humble beginnings. But before they started life they found out what use they could be. You have men like Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Lipton, etc., starting from the lowest walks of life and gradually growing. When they died, they left the world thinking. Wealth is not all. It is the intelligence of man that counts. An intelligent man can always find the way out. But I have never seen a successful fool. Somebody always takes it away from him. It is a fool who is always in rage; a fool is always complaining; always telling you somebody is against him; always going to the obeah man to give him luck. But let me tell you that there is nothing outside of you as strong as what is inside of you. The power inside of you is the strongest. If you don’t understand it, then you are only a bit of flesh and other men will trample you... It is your thoughts that make you beautiful or otherwise; they are reflected in your life... Look at George Washington, Caesar, etc. God has given you the potentiality to be like anyone of them. One of the greatest men the world has ever seen was born in Nevis. That shows that genius has no special spot... St. Kitts – Garden of Eden Garvey’s dynamic mission in life awakened the world to the tremendous force which the unity of the Negro race could produce to influence the course of human progress. Continuing the speech, he said, As I came off the ship I could see your condition on the water front. Man views you from without, which is an indication of what you are within. Make your life so beautiful within that it will reflect. Make St. Kitts your Garden of Eden. .. if you don’t do it then other men will do it for you… The North American Indian lived on top of goodness and did not know it. While he was riding around with his scalping knife there was 160
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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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Grenada, and will seek to work in a
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Ferguson, Chairman of the Commissio
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Now let me say in the first place t
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We should like to refer to West Ind
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in West Indies there is a considera
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The 1932 Commissioners commented on
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not regard it as essential that the
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official news of its adoption by th
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gravity of the situation to the att
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On 13 th December, 1934 an unusuall
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employed by those who demand the ad
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concerning the right for the workin
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come relief to a grateful people an
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vance towards the goal of the Feder
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members of the Council. Mr. Marrysh
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see no reason why we should be give
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Unofficial Majority on the Legislat
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tional reform movement in this Pres
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Page 164 and 165: age. In the following month, Januar
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Page 180 and 181: 21 POWER OF THE PRESS During first
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