PAGE TWO This RSMAN SATURDAY BARCH 17 18 desis: 3:434233 3:exce0693652 NATIONAL WHISKY Extensive Damage By Floods THE WORKMAN In Interior of British Guiana OLD PANAMA Kinderen are to be number besides the crows LA MASCOTA may ry pot alo When a man Buys a better houses РАСК.
ARD SHOE Packard Published on Sstardsys by 2133. for Adve na 03 applica The state of the Mahaicony disWALROND, at the office No. 16. tloa. Correspondence on all mattes triet, says the Daily Cbroni.
Street East Panan RP of pablie Interest invited.
cle of Demerara, of Feb. 1st, is All copy for publiestion must be PO Box 16, Pasama RP one which is causing much alorra written on one side of paper only, and Zas Kenderen in the Rates of Subscription GIVE IT TRIAL AND YOU WILL TAKE Mabawory must be accompanied by the name of Central Country District je Yat 40 C, the writer, not necessarily for publica Foundated and under about eight 20 tion but as a mark of good faith.
Mix Months NO OTHER inches of water in the highest part Taree We do not undertake to retura roof the village. Tabueries, rice millo Math jected correspondence.
To be had in all Fashionable Places copra driers and eattle peos are all abandoned and it is sad to note Phe Liberty of the Press is the palladium of our rights INUIS that is some of the price miles in the creek district, the first layer of SATURDAY MARCH 17, 1928 WOMACK AMERICAN WHISKY CO.
bars is covered with water, which has become stageant and offensive in odour.
Gereral Listibut on 8th Street and North Ave.
SOME LABOUR PROBLEMS On the side of the road from De.
C: to Drill, cattle, sheep pigs and feathered stock The celebrated Panamanian Immigration Law which. sexsyse. SS sisxss SXSCOXSBD found grazing in Isrge quantities among other things, restricts West Indian immigration into whilst the only fortunate and the Republic of Panama is again before the nation law bappy makers for amendment, the local British representative aloobozok 18 lien seen, is either assisting in decreasing the carcases and other representatives whose people come under the left to rot, by taking his place provisons of the Law having protested certain phases of burking to attract bis or furiously it. As has already been reporte. the amendment which will be made is not likely to alter two of the original attention to the stealthy creeplota of an alligator, tlat be fundamental intentions of the Panamanian legislature that (al o il:o the only availali is, to prevent at any time an unnecessary influx of our peoald very freequently a dinner ple into the republic as permanent residents, and our inMotor cars, buses and other clusion in the Law as undesirable aliens. The Law orivehteles have to travel at the rate a of five miles per hour, if they do ginally. was generally known by West Indians to have not desire rua grave risks and contained some unpleasant and therefore, objectionable the same thing applies to the 55 features affecting them. More than that the Government m, train from town. every day, found out and subsequently admitted that in many ways Plo. Broomisnds owned by Mir. Houston is by no means in any it was not practicable for them to enforce the Law.
for the labourers further disinterested look into the Law, however, will not reveal to West Indians domiciled here all unde.
reached except by boat, Tunges cannot be sirable features in the clauses referring to or including them, Perb Village seems to be in a as, for instance, that which classes them as undesirables mrt precarious position for the public osd is covered with about after over twenty years of residence, during which time eighteen nches of wa er.
they helped to a great extent in the development of the country. There are the clauses wich curtail Martis, a farming district with about 60 houses scattered immigration of labourers from the West. Indian islands.
ever an area of 120 rods, to Wash There is at the present time more West Indian and Clotbrs, the end of the branch road native labourers in Panama and the adj sining territory, the public road is covered; the the Canal Zone, than can decently live at this, the rental and it has been completely cross roads of the world, under the prevailing price of la.
wwshed off and fish are being he feels better every time he wears it, caught where motor cars add milk bour and the high cost of ordinary commodities, Further, vans ian daily this number is bound to increase materially within the next for the recollection of quality The first bridge leading into the five ur ten years when the existing thousands of young branch road gave way twice which people shall have attained maturity and taken on full resnexessitated the calling into the remains long after the price district of Mr. John Brice, the ponsibilities of life. During that period the percentage of road officer. Read Rangs were bur.
reduction by death ard physical deterioration of the work is forgotten.
red to the scene, traffic was stoping force will be almost nil in proportion to the total inped and not until a the next crease of workers. The Malthusian law of the pressure of trorning was the work of fixing back the bridge finished.
population upon sibsistence will then b: more markedly The roads overseer travelled effective, producing a fertile field upon which capitalists sh and monorolists mostly thrive. The capitalisis always dis SEE OUR SHOW WINDOWS through the roads using a boat at certain points to ascertain the play a broad smile under cover when there is a large surplus damage done.
of labor, for that condition supports his almost natural dispoThe O, of tbe district has sition to pay out the least possible reward for the greatest for all the latest Models censed visiting that section of the district which has become very quantity of work, thereby taking in abnormally large profits.
dangerous for his motor car.
Since the completion of the Panama Canal the local daring driver, the chauffeur of labour market has always been too generous y supplied Mr. Isaac McLean, heeded not tbe with reliable and cheap lab Jurers, principally coloured West warning, but veatured into Pertb.
Indians: and well thinking West Indians here have agreed He sueceded io reaching a portion of the road, whence the metal had that that phase of the new Law which seeks to block any SOLE AGENT been washed off, and as a result further influx of immigration from the West Indies is not paid three dellars to get the car without merit.
pulled out while the occupants had While, for some time past, Panama, the capital city of 87 CENTRAL AVENUE PANAMA CITY to wade through a few feet of the Republic, and Colon on the Atlantic end, have been Milk vendors in the creek disundergoing some expansion by way of erection of new trist are so pressed with the work of buildings, this work furnishes employment at periods for inakiog tign mounds for their cow.
a not too high percentage of the unemployed. No deand calves that there is alssolutely velopment work of any great magnitude is being carried alk. coming from Mabaicans CreekAs result cut or are in prospect in the republic, and over ninety percent this of he work which is being done on the Panama Canal is the govInsanally, tha ernment contract for fuphouse ul of a permanent nature for which a permanent working force milk to the hospital and alms is employed. Capitalists watch and study labor turnover. who took a large supply from Even when and where tbere is a pressing need for the imcan be seenestly every inorning in her motor var. Tollowed provement of wages and working conditions the presence of a large surplus of useable labour greatly endangers the Of every description by a mutor car buying every drop of available wijk around and about chances of increased compensation and improved working and sotuetimes paying whatever is and living conditions, in fact, such surplus helps to make asked for it.
conditions worse. Rentals are scoring sky wards in the The local authority met a iew two principal cities of the republic, which creates and days ago and it is supposed formaintains an acute shortage of respectable living quarters at DESPATCH warded a scheme to the Local Government Board for drawing ofi reasonable rates to suit the pockets of the average worker.
the Lamaha. waters. It is yes If there is adopted an equitable system of allowing AT THE known what is the scheme but the easy ext and ingress of West Indian residents here and whereby the as opposed to any scheme their families, we do not believe that the restriction of imbe neighbouring estates migra ion of our people to Panama will tend to work hardand have a meeting and have forwarded ships on those already here. We know that in many cases it would be unfair to the immigrants. We do not desire It is the opinion of those conto have reports emanating from here, as those which are cerned that the Director of Public Works will have a very uphill task received from time to time from Cuba depicting deplorable when the water is drawn oft, for a economic conditions of West Indians there. We do not care to have described any greater hardships of our people here new road will have to be made new bridges if the residents over and above those which they are experiencing at the Dr. Nathan Rowe of the Mahaiconycreek are lefs present time.
alive to carry on their work in For upwards of twenty years the authorities of the PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON WHITENS THE SKIN producing provisions, greens. eres milk and poultry and las:ly but Panama Canal have found West Indian labour excluding, 11th and Bolivar Sts.
no means the least cattle from thi by of course, that of their own people to be the most dependCreme Blanc Mirette Mahaicony eattle ranch for the COLON, able for the exacting work which is being carried out in the consumpion of residents of George maintenance and operation of the great waterway, and, BUILDING I0. 123 OPPOSITE Marvellous Cream town and the lower East Coast villagers, therefore, will always use this labour to the greatest advan Chase National Bank Prevents and removes frackies, moth patches, One death by drowniog has tage. When there arises futher need for greater numbers of Office Hours: 9am to 12m occurred up to the present.
ou: working class in the Republic of Panama and in the sun tan, and other skin blemishes pm to pm.
Canal Zone, we are sure that the respective representatives of these governments will not fail to admit them in proporOFFICE TELEPRONE 329 Rent Receipt Books in Spanish SOLD IN DRUG STORES and English for sale at the took tion to the pressure of the demand.
DRUG STORE TELEPHONE 154.
MAN Printery CARLOS MULLER water: the holder of the JOB. PRINTING centre DONE WITH NEATNESS AND is not villagers as will e malgumated, WORKMAN PRINTERY