JNF-The-Working-Class-Struggle-of-Half-a-Century

The official side was lukewarm. Administrator D.R. Stewart
who had presided over a meeting of the Legislative Council on the 4 th
September made no reference to the Closer Union Commission which
was to arrive here in December. In replying to the President’s speech,
an unofficial member drew attention to the omission. The Administrator
answered that he was not in a position to give any information on
the subject, as he had no official information about it.
The opposing element resorted to the tactics which had been
used on the occasion of the Wood Commission ten years earlier, and
which had resulted in the denial of Representative Government to St.
Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla. An appeal was made in The Union Messenger
for the setting aside of class differences And if we consider rightly,
this difficulty has dominated our public life to its detriment and has
been the principal stock-in-trade upon which the divide-and-rule policy
has flourished. The existence of this difficulty has cursed the Presidency
for generations.… It seems necessary that we address this inquiry to
the people - is this folly to prevent the Presidency from being represented
at the Dominica conference and from having a representative delegation
to present the St.Kitts -Nevis case to the commission?
Greetings from Grenada
The first visit of Mr. T. Albert Marryshow to St. Kitts drew a gigantic
crowd to The Apollo on the evening of 9 th September, 1932. He was
on his way to the Colonial Office, in London and was also to attend a
labour conference in Germany. Mr. Marryshow was editor of The
West Indian of the Grenada Working Men’s Association and an elected
member of the Grenada Legislative Council. He was invited to give
an address here by the St. Kitts Workers’ League which had been
formed at the beginning of that year. After expressing his pleasure for
the opportunity to speak, he said: Now in a sense, I am not a stranger
to Saint Kitts. Some years ago, I visited British Guiana, and just as I
was about to go there, an editor, an Englishman, by the name of
Mr........ he wrote a series of editorials, suggesting to the Government
that I should not be permitted to land. He thought, rightly or wrongly,
that my presence would agitate the people. Unfortunately, however,
wise counsel prevailed, and I landed in grand style. “British Guiana,”
I said, “was my home. I look upon the whole West Indies as my
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