PAGE SIX THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1924 :57 Conditions Prevailing in Cuba Laundry. LA ESPERANZA. Soap Factory KLIM SRAND LAUNDRY QUALITY POWDERED WHOLE MILK MERRELL SOULE CO.
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a glass of milk for lunch Book Binding! KLIM Petition Forwarded to Sir Leslie Probyn Setting out Plight of our People THE BEST THE BEST The Herald of the 29th. suggestion would be: Why not March says. The following are apply to the British Consul for copies of a letter and petition for redress? It would simply be a warded to His Excellency Sir waste of so much time to make Leslie Probyn by Jamaicans spplication to the British Consul SERVICE residiog in Cuba, setting out the bere, when the British Consul SOAP conditions under which natives himaelf is engaged in business of of this island and other West In importiog labour from the West in the city.
dian islands have to labour. Indies: and this labour importfor Laundry ed by him, be it noted, repreAbsolute satisfacTHE LETTER sents the same class of men to whom reference has been tion and purposes made as above. It is, therefore, not likely to suppose that the Santiago de Cuba, Eritish Consul for Santiago will Quick Service.
Use it all the time March 25th 1924.
give bis assistance in correcting abuses which would block his May it please Your Excellency own source of income; and very To receive here with the petition prolific source of income it must of the West Indian Workers be indeed, when we understand Union, which comprises the this gentleman has a steamer TELEPHONE 629 PANAMA.
working people of nearly all the under charter for transportation West indian Islands and prin of labourers, and we further uncipally Jamaica.
We desire to draw Your Ex 80 good be intends to buy a derstand that, the business being cellency attention to the steamer for the trade.
following, in addition to the complaints set forth in the One has not got to go very far FEED YOUR BABIES ON pravers.
find out the reason why the At the Quarantine Station in British Consul is compelled to Santiago de Cuba the people are companies here who maiotain friendly relations with emplos de prived of such necessities afore bath and toilet; and as, in con foreign labour on a large scale sequence of the drastic medicine and from wbom he secures con tracts for furnishing these administered to them on enter.
labourers.
ing; the women become ill two or three days after they are there, Excellency to take this matter in We bereby beseech Your ready to use; cheaper and safer and absence of water with UNSWEETENED which to than any other Food for children.
batbe and wash is band with a view of checking this brutal.
crying evil which becomes more We would also like to explain alarming everv day.
Exchange the labels for toys and Aluminum Pots at that owing to the starvation diet We beg to remain, given the people when under Your Excellency Obedients quarantine, they are forced to Servants, West Indian Workers purchase food at a funda or Unlon.
eating house, established on the Per Shackleon, Secretary.
grounds for that purpose. In Colon or Panama doing so, in almost every case GRIEVANCES FULLY SET OUT they spend portions of their train fare. This being the cage peuple, but principally the men Petition of Natives of all the are lit at the mercy of un West Indian Islands Residing scrupening in their power to get do persons who in Cuba. Prepared and Forcomplaints or adjust differences these poor unfortunates to agree warded under the Auspices of between labourers and employthe West Indian Workers erg bere etc. and we feel that to go to scme sugar estate in this Union.
only one of our countrymen will country, for which service the be able adequately to represent socalled labour agent is paid To Sir Leslie Probyn, us in this country.
liberally by the sugar estate and Captain General and Why throw away your old, but no the untortunate men treated like Governor in and for the Island (14) Your Petitioners accept slaves. If they refuse to go, the of Jamaica and Its Dependencies doubt interesting, books when you with pleasure the information cords are tightened, that is to Legislative Council of Jamaica.
Honourable Members of the that it is the intention of the Hon.
say, their daily rations are cut can have them neatly bound at Legislative Council to vote a sum down to a point where they My it please Your Excellency of money to pay the officer who either must yield or starve. The and Hon, Gentlemen.
THE WORKMAN represents and protects us at postal rate on letters in this The humble Petition of the Santiago de Cuba and we bumcountry is two cents for Cuba undersigned showeth.
bly ber that a Jamaican and not and the United States, and five (1) That your petitioners are 93 CENTRAL AVENUE the British Consul be the officer cents for foreign countries. West Indians, natives of the appointed for that purpose.
While in quarantine the people Island of Jamaire and loyal Opposite Cecilia Theatre (16) Your petitioners beg to are made torrent five and see subjects of His Majesty King assure you that there are many cents respectively; and, strange George as it may seem, letters which cases of murders, ill treatments leave the Quarantine Station ad. nearly all of us taxpayers resid(2. That your petitioners are and buses done to our people dressed to Jamaica, seldom ever ing in the various parishes in the bere that have never reached the reach their destination.
ears of the authorities at home, Another unbeard of abuse is Island of Jamaica.
Dot only because we have no Sound medium through which to conthe fact that all per. 3) That through forced cir.
your sons under 21 years of age when cumstances petitioners vey the information, but because under the present circumstances sent to the Quarantine Station, emigrate to the Republic of Cuba that Dairylea Evaporated Mild is richer, the bush machinery is applied.
are detained there beyond the in search of work and that as expiration of the regular 15 days strangers here we need frocreamier, better tasting than any (17) Your petitioners without until some one can be found to (4) Tbat upon arrival in the guarantee their stay in Cuba, apy desire to dictate, would, if you have ever tried and not infrequently the Labour Harbour of Santiago de Coba allowed the privilege of offering Agent comes forward as sponsor natives of Jamaica are subjected suggestion, submit the names (and is usually accepted for some to a system of quarantine unof Caleb Campbell, late vicereason not difficult to explain) knowo to any other country in Buy a can from your Chairman of the St. Andrew Parochial Board, and Dr.
and the so called minor rete the world.
Grocer to day.
Penso, late vice Chairman of the free transportation to some God. 5) That before we are placed Kingston Mayor and Council as forsaken sugar estate and there under Quarantine the sum of left to his own resources. We Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents, Compare Dairylea with candidates for the position.
there is an age rere American Gold is extorted from We feel that both the gentlestriction to to be applied to pas each of us. to, it is said, cover Sterilised men above named have been and sengers arriving in this port 50 cents per day for a period of Unsweetened are champions for the cause of EVAPORATED from Jamaica or other West fifteen days for our sustenance justice for the masses of Jamaica Indian islands, the Government while there: but that only an and the former is thoroughly of these places should pass the expenditure of what we believe familiar with the matter of necessary laws taking care of eleven cents per day is expended DAIRY MEN this feature of the immigration upon each of us each day.
emigration between Jamaica and Zeague Cuba.
problem Another feature in this unfor for our keep whilst (6. That the provisions made Convince Yourself (18) Your petitioners feel that tunate business has recently de quarantine are inadequate, reas natives of Barbados and other veloped which increases the pulsive, unbealthy and unciviliz: West Indian Islands suffer in like already beavy burdens which are ed, in as much as men and manner as we do, that arrangeplaced on the shoulders of the women of all classes are buddled our people become ill while in for reas of the above as well ments of the chief of these ments be made with the Goveraimmigrant on bis arrival here together without due regard for quarantine, the authorities as the fact that our country is colonies with a view to making All passengers who are sent to decency and that no regard is charge ten or ifteen or twenty particularly healthy, the quaran co operative efforts to allay the the Quarantine Station bere given to cleanliness. The sani dollars to allow sick persons to tire is unreasonable and unjust; sufferings which we are now unand as the game is a lucrative ation is also horrible. be taken off; and whenever simi that an investigation is absolutely dergoing, and your petitioners as one very few escape the sentence are called upon to pay (7) That parlies in whom the lar amounts are payable any necessary.
in duty bound will ever pray.
one doliar for conveyance from quarantine officers are interested person may leave the station. 12. Your petitioners regret the steamer to the station, and are allowed to carry on a busi(10) Your petitioners futher to state that adequate means of Bity cents additional from the ness place of retreshment in the station to the Custom House, quarantine station where on beg to state that a steamship is protection cannot be obtained from the British Consul at starved all in barbour of This is only another clever dodge from us for meals, though we ployers of their agents are presents here only England and This is bei fate the days aree dp or nearly all of our cash is forced Santiago and that laborem. Bantiago who very often imforms NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
natives of Jamaica tht be refor stripping the poor man of allowed to visit the quarantine Our Patrons and well every available cent on his per pay the original 50.
son, so that when they are fically (8)
Your petitioners are cer from the quarantine authorities station weekly and purchase white men. 13) The Britith Consul here wishers are hereby notified throngh with bim he is com tain that not all persons who are labourers who are taken away, being himself for sometime now that the office of the WORKpelled to fall in with other unfor sent upon quarantine remain in some cases by force, at nights engaged in the recruting and MAN PRINTERY has been tunates in the same plight as there for 15 days and when this and sold to sugar centrals in distribution for cash of labourers removed and is now located himself and go up the line on a is so there is no means of different parts of the country, cannotot will not use his office hardships and humiliations of a deposit which remains with the or refusal on the part of the being oppresed.
free ticket, there to suffer the recovering that portion of our and that any show of resentment to intervene when labourers are in more commodious quarters at 93 Central Avenue, optraffic in human beings, little apthorities.
labourers to accede to the demand (14. For the same reason as posite the Cecilia Theatre, less monstruous than the old (9) Your petitioners feel ag to go results in the resenting mentioned above, the British where we will be in system of slave trading. In these grieved that when in consequence parties being locked up in prison. Consul in Santiago does not give position to better accommocircumstances the most natural of the unbealthiness of the place (11) Your petitioners feel that himself the trouble to listen to date patrons, in the afternoon when you make desserts for dinner Two minutes will prove for creamed soup at dinner time DAIRYLEA USE that it any others.
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