BAGS TWO سس THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY OCTOBER 6, 1929 THE WEST INDIES AMERICA AFRICA JAMAICA Collecting Material Liberia Refused 5, 000, 000 for Negro History Loan from Mutual Co.
to in All Parts with ation treatment comare now of yore.
BARBADOS Local Newspaper on Conditions Jamaica is Producing Manuscript will tell Unwritten Good Fighters History (of the Race Furds Subsequently Secured Through Firestone Tire Co.
Faulkner Says President King Feared Race Aid of Labourers in Cuba WASHINGTON, Sept. pl. GOOD PROPOSITIONS In order that an indisputable story of Liberia difficulties are due the Race will be accurately known Wills, 37, made 350, 000 in poor administration, declared ThomSAYS WORKER HAS NO PROTECTION Local boxing fans will have in the years to come, diligent efforts are a, Faulkner, candidate for the made AGAINST BARBAROUS TREATMENT being not distant future the privilege of man Fight Purses to discover and collect presideney, opposing President seeing the redoubtable Kid Cephas manuscripts bearing upon its history, King of Liberia, who was elect(undisputed welterweight champion to be mounted, catalogued and kept ed in the last presidential campaign.
Mr. Faulkner has been in this MT: Urges United Action ofall Island Governments Jamaica. Busy Bil (the Barbe by to where they can be consulted Sum Could have been made in dos warrior who gave Cephas a sternal and of one fight with Dempsey country for two months seeking the all times.
This battle in Trinidad some weeks ago, by work is being done to Protect from Exploitations influence of the government and inwhich is still carrying trail of dis by the American Historical associa terested citizens for the abolition of cussion. and the hard hitting sug. tion and the Social Science Research WIL IGHT AGAIN forced labor in Liberia and the crethe assistance of the of public sentiment that will The Barbados Advocate of the 2nd taekled in a more thorough and dras. ger fighter, Jimmy Cox, in the local council library of congress, which has reulto. writing editorially of the con tic manner.
eliminate fraud in elections there.
WASHINGTON. CNS. Harry There is no necessity, arena, and the advent of these big as has been suggested, for prohibit three of the squared circle will set served special space where this col Wills, the Brown Panther of the box President King, Mr. Faulkner ditions of West Indian labourers in lected material may be preserved.
Cuba says: ing emigration to Cuba, but a law at rest for a good time references to The material sought is a varied cd 35, 000 in 16 years in the squared, faster had he shown a friendly dising ring, now 37 years old, has grossid, could have gotten along much The vacillating policy of the va providing for safe and healthy trans. the Jamaica Boxing Board of Comsort, old letters, diaries, family recrious West Indian Governments with port, for fair contracts and just treat trol marking time.
circle, it was revealed recently on an position toward the colored people of ords, wills, deeds, receipts, bills of article prepared by Harry Grayson, the United States.
regard to the control of emigration both necessary and imperative. Board of Control to promote fights, documents which historians believe ment of West Indian labourers It is not the duty of a Boxing sale and the like are some is of the white sports writer. When Liberia needed money sevto Cuba has undoubtedly encouraged the Cubans to disregard all the laws Federal Government would, of course, but the local board has been looking well tell the unwritten history of the Writting of the man who for. years eral years ago to refund its debt, the their carry through an enactment which around all the white to aid prospec. Race.
was known as the Black Menace, President came to America.
of justice and humanity would be applicable to all the islands, tive promoters in arranging good of West Indian labourers. When the materials and docu. Mr. Grayson says. understand that the North Carscattered He looked stangely familiarolina Mutual Life Insurance Year after year in spite of well ay. but in the absence of thig Parliament boxing shows in which patrons would ments, which thenticated reports of the maltreat ary machinery the same result must not be let down.
throughout the country, are collected across the floor of Billy Grupp pany, of Durham, offered to underCould it be write the loan, but President King At a meeting of the Jamaica Box and made accessible to investigators, Earlem gymnasium, ment and robbery of West Indian la. be secured by agreement between the not boures on Cuban plantations the Governments. It does not appear to ing Board of Control held yesterday the real history of our group can be Harry Wills? Yes, sir, there he was refused, declaring that he did the te extravagant to demand that the afternoon at 16 o clock, at which told, declared Dr. Carter. Wood the old brown panther himself. wish private nid.
Cuba Sugar Factories are allowed to recruit thousands of men in these emigrant ships should carry a limit there were present Messts. Owen son, noted historian and director of pulling and tugging Subsequently, the effort for a ed islands without first signing proper number of labourers, for whose Samuel (chairman. Kerr, the Journal of Negro History, in a Wil Fight Again loan from the United States failed Johnny Dundee and are suffer and he was forced to resort to the provisions for their transport. The infonsa should be made. These ships Van Sergellen, and Mike Hanna the contracts and without making proper safety and comfort adequate proy. Martin Smith, Fred Joy, Gatement issued recently Asks Public Aid ing from the same alment, Harry Firestone company.
labourers should be under the close inspection proposition was put before the board, conditions under which Assistance from the general public said, mopping the perspiration from Home for Christmas of the Harbour Masters of the var. and the matter was fully discussed. has been asked by the association by his furrowed forehead. We Mr. Faulkner will be in Philadeltravel in the emigrantships are who should comlittle short of bestial, and there is sous islands, local promoter is in receipt of turning over all manuscripts of this know what to do with ourselves out phia and New York next week. He municate with each other as to the letters from Busy Billy and Kid Ce kind to become a part of the collec. of this racket. m going to fight sails about the middle of November an ever present danger of a marine AVAILABLE ACCOMMODATION phas (both of whom are at esent tion. It was pointed out that while again. Guess ll stick to it as long in order to arrive back home in Lidisaster of the greatest magnitude an account of the overcrowdine. Re. for fresh emigrants in the ship in Trinidad. requesting that bouts the material and documents could as my health is good. Wills will be beria by Christmas.
Each Company which requires West be arranged here, in which they will not be regained once they were given 37 next January presentations and protests are configure. Each man refers to the re. up they would forever be available He declares himself much satisfied tinually being made against the bar. Indian labourers should also be recent encounter in Trinidad, and as it for consultation.
Godfrey Only Fair with the results of his trip.
substantial sum barous treatment of West Indian In quired to deposit From his conversation you gath Representations to the State Debourers in Cuba, but although the by way of guarantee before it is al is, each is of the opinion that he In this way, a member of the as er that he considers Godfrey a chee partiment resulted in an American presence of the British Consul and lowed to make a single contract, and defeated the other, and can do it sociation declared, this is the only sy menace only fair and not in a note to Liberia asking for an invesothe active intervention of the West the sum should be held to compen again.
way to preserve such material. The class with the great colored clouters tigation of Liberian slavery condisete those labourers who might be Indian emigration agent often suc awarded damages for breach of conEager to Come Cephas and Busy Billy are eager or loss will be done away with.
probability of accidental destruction of his time whom he rates in this tions. commission is to be apceed in obtaining redress in individ tract against the Company. Further to come to Jamaica to settle the is It is order: Sam Langord. Jack Johnson, pointed consisting of one American al cases there is the West Indian Commissioner should sue, and the board is of the opinion ten also asked that letters writ Joe Jeanette, Sam MeVey, Batting one Liberian and a third person to by imm immigrants from 1916 to NO GUARANTEE that such a eliat the majority will be fairly treat. be given the authority to make ne.
Thompson ed. Owing to the distance, from presentations to the Cuban Gefill in to the set would be a god and from 1922 to 1923 be submitted Jim Johnson, Jeff Clark and Jack be selected by the League of Nations.
present marking of time These documents will be valuable for No Colored Americans With Godfrey has had more opportunifuture reference in that they will ment and to secure the protection of which has overshadowed boxing.
Firestone.
emigrants. An information bureau Another interesting communica show exactly what conditions were ties than any colored heavweight these profective agents the labourer As another example of the attitude is often unable to state his case, and should also be run in connection with tion brought to the notice of the obtaining in the South at that time since Jack Johnson and has failed of Prtsident King toward the colorCuban law, as far as immigration is the office of the Commissioner so board was a letter received by a and the progress the Race has made ima to take advantage of them. Can you ed American, Mr. Faulkner said, is concerned, is partial and imagine Langford in the same ring shown in that the Firestone rubber unjust that the Governments could know well known sportsman from Jimmy in freedom, said Dr. Woodson.
Moreover the labourer is not only what prospects were open to labour. Cox (who is now in London) and the with Renault, Sharkey, Pauline and plantation company in Liberia, treated unfairly but large numbers Risko? He would have knocked all employing a number of white workare stranded yearly in Cuba to be and cou decide on the numbers conditions set out being reasonable, produced and read carefully, and of them out of the building or ballers from the United States, but no which any Company should be allow. it is a foregone conclusion that Jim.
my can be in Kingston in another press in the sister colony even the guarded writers of repatriated at the expense of the is: ed to recruit. This is indeed a matpark.
colored.
hand Governments. If the islands and ter of West Indian importance which forget the tearing lashing, maulina Cephat had the better of the 80. like Renault, Sharkey, Paulino and King desired no colored American six weeks. No boxing fan can in some It Godfrey was the fighter he is Mr. Faulkner quoted Mr. Firestone respects that pictured, he could belt out fellows himself, as saying that the emigrant labourers reaped the forcibly demonstrates the need President financial rewards to the labourer West Indian or Jimmy Cox.
ndian unity. The past Nevertheless, the decision Arrangements are now under way draw, and all efforts to get a return such a feat meant something and any commensurate financial advan: and the persistent wrongs prove also Risko. knocked out Fulton when workers.
tages, the West Indian Governments how careless the individual Govern to secure spacious stadium for put bout there proved a Since arriving in this country, Mr.
beat Firpo.
might perhaps be pardoned for turn ments have been of the rights of ting on these big shows, and everyFaulkner says, he has received leting a third eye to these claimant their people and how impotent their thing ought to move smoothly proThe board at its meeting yester Wills points out that Jack John ters from friends at home indicating evind thi the great exodus of West Individual efforts are. few months wided there sporting spirit of Ja putting on amateur bouts, and the break when he was in position to do months in arrears in its payment of day also considered the proposal of son never gave a colored man a that the Indian labourers to the Isthmus of now remain before the labourers for maica audiences is displayed.
settling of the Lightweight Champ so, and declares he would have met government workers and that times Panama for example, conditions were the next Cuban crop will be recruit The Busy Billy Cephas bout in ionship of Jamaica was dealt with Godfrey had any promoter offered to were hard.
not ideal, but it was felt that the ed and during this period some ef Trinidad was followed with keen in Several other matters were dis put on the match.
financial rewards to the labourer forts must be made to prevent a re suzina atay suey Surxoq kq 180:101 cussed, and the meeting adjourned The Jack Dempsey Jim Dougherty compensated him for any disconforts currence of the scandals and injus from the Trinidad papers being re at 50 o clock.
break since patched up was caused or injustice he might suffer. The tices of the past four years.
emigrant to to Cuba, however, leaves by the old champion refusal to tell poor and returns in the same condi. BRITISH GUIANA tion. If the contract which he has of qualifying for title shot, or signed with the Company is broken Har was on Dempsey heels like and according to our breaches of Demerara Prison these covenants he has no redress, for the Cuban court will not enter Closed tain his claims and the West Indian ed. My biggest purse was the 150. Governments have not insisted on a Of New York 000 collected for the Mirpo mateh.
deposit being made by these com British Guiana. By Mail) probably grossed 850, 000 during panies to cover any breach of the Arrangements are being made to the. 16 years in the ring. would contract. Emigration to Cuba, to put close Mazaruni Penal Settlement HEAD OFFICE. 55 Wall Street, New York have made that much in one evening it quite frankly, is entirely without where long term male prisoners conhad not Dempsey passed me up for advantage to these islands, and some victed by the Supreme Court were Tunney.
thing should be done and done quick detained.
Total Assets more than wo Thousand Million ly to end or to mend it.
The first batch of prisoners to be It is obvious that the best results transferred to the Georgetown can only be obtained by the close prison left the Settlement on Septem Dollars Cy.
collaboration of all the island Gov ber Gypsy Moth Plane ernments. West Indian policy This batch comprised 16 prisoners.
For Own Use with regard to emigration is impe. Later in the month another batch rative if the West Indian is to be and nearly the whole staff of prison will be removed. By CableCou FROM EXPLOITATION Four Warders and twenty five prion the sugar plantations. As long as soners will remain to do sanitary less) The Prince of Wales there is no agreement on a settled work in an endeavour to rid the bought a seroplane which he will has policy and no unity of action the place of malaria.
use for private tights. The machine Cuban Government will refuse to give The entire settlement will be closed is a two seater Gipsy Moth, just treatment to emigrants. But by the end of the year.
costing 2675 with the difficulties in the way of an between 85 and 90 and to West Indian Residents of thé Isthmus is painted in red and blue the colours it agreement on this question are not great. The interests of all the is of the Brigade of Guards Light Aeroare identical, and this fact was Kirton plane Club. Dual controls are fitted recognized at the West Indies Conso that the Prince can take over the ference where the delegates agreed machine while in the air, coinpusle to the appointment of West Indian Modern Tailor guages for oil and petrol and air Commissioner in Cuba. It is not indicators being titted in both enough, however, to appoint a ComPANAMA COLON cockpite.
missioner, who can after all only No 57 The machine can land in mall 33 CENTRAL AVE.
lodge feeble protests and forward AT FRONT STREET fields and manoeuvre in much smallCalidonia Road seathing reports to the island Gover spaces than fast military aerovernments. The question must be plánes which the Prince has hitherto used.
13 is ers the history was a failure.
Wills to whip Godfrey as a means The National City Bank faithful hound at the time. made money chasing Dempsey but not as much as has been reportPrince of Wales Buys the protected LONDON, Sept. 19. Rugby WireSAVINGS ACCOUNTS SOLICITED Drafts sold on all points in the West Indies 25 Years of Service TA cruising speed of lands The National Tity Bank of New York speed