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THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARCUS GARVEY LABOR IN THE CITY that is necessary to this general After a discussion in connection foreman is a Ford flivver, a stylish with the letters mentioned in this walk and four good, foolish colored column last week, am moved to men who can mix any shade paint Wet Bob poeties like this the Big boss wants and, direct the men to do the work, on the job. The roses in June are not so These four colored men are told sweet As when two Violetta chance to that they can get more than 28 cents an hourTwenty eight cents. It is another case demonstrating they surprisingly ask. Yes. says that my theory of Applied Educathe three eights hts carpenter, that Velcro tion, set forth in our last an. whole two cents more than the niversary number, speaks for itself. highest paid man in the gang, and On the other hand, the discussion besides, you ll be in charge when Bahy revealed still another fact, which is, m away. And he always away.
that carpenters, masons and paint. He is not supposed to be there when hawler Pine Apple 3D ers allow themselves to be duped by tough problems arise!
general foremen whose only ability But the Big boss soon comes around is to look nuf. depend on the in to give orders to the general foretelligence of their foreman and emman. He produdes a pattern ploy the lowest tricks on the work. want these rooms painted in this ingmen.
shade paint. Alright, alright. It Think of a gang of native and a dandy color pretty makes a good Pseks Seul West Indian painters who have job. Sure, it a dandy.
been working with the same general The Big boss hurries away. The foreman for four years and upwards and can get one cent more than 26 general foreman starts the engine of his fliver and calls his backcents an hour. But here is the laugh. iron. that 28 cent painter.
able part of the situation: This You say you can mix any color, peinter general foreman is an old eh?
When you want a fascinating hair dress, get a Workman and pick your style three eights carpenter, who worked Yes.
from any of the above captivating colored girls Then go to at high speed doing nothing on the What material you need to mix locks when there were bulk heads MRS. ST. HILL BEAUTY PARLOUR to be removed. This done, he would 20 gallons of this color?
The back122 ANCON AVENUE have to read blue prints if he want iron rattles off the material neces.
sary. The general foreman says, ed a job as a white carpenter foreman. So he knitted his brow and m too busy to come back this and have it done.
hurried off to this city to a precious morning but m going to send the material.
Now want everything job as general foreman for painters.
He is off in his Mark you, painting doesn demand ready by noon.
Llivver, leaving that 28 cents anthe ability to read blue prints! All hour man to show the difference bebulk head carpenter and a painter This man continues to work in the hope that he will get a raise of pay.
But as soon as he asks for it he is soft soaped with a lot of bunk or removed from one job to another to work under another back fron of the same rating; and whichsoever of these back irons ask for a raise first, INCORPORATED 1869 in removed to stin another job.
This scheme goes on and on. Nevertheless, one day one of these men gets tired of this raw deception and approaches the Big boss for raise pay. The Big boss inquires of PANAMA COLON the general foreman if said man is worth it. The cruel general foreman Santa Ana Plan Corner 11th and Bolivar Stroete retorts in this wise: Why, that feller. He just came into the gang! ve good men working for 26 cents and he getting 28 m making a painter outer him now! But he seems to be a good worker. replies the bose Well, think should know my men, don you?
This ends it. The general foreman goes back and tells his right hand With 900 Branches throughout the world, including that he had a talk with the office the following in the British West Indies etc. this Bank and it is impossible to give him a raise of pay. The company gets all is in a position to render the best possible service.
the blame while the general foreman draws a fat pay for his tricks.
While it is a fact that the dignity Antigua Dominica Monterrat of craftsmanship has been establishon tact and proficiency, it is beBahamas Grenada St. Kitts ing dragged down to disrepute by tricksters who rob the laboring group Barbados Jamaica (2)
St. Lucia to fatten their bowels. In building British Honduras Trinidad (2)
Martinique and finishing, no man who is worth anything would resort to such mean Guadeloupe (2)
British Guiana (2)
practises to make his money, but whose fault is it that such men carry on so long?
tween a The Royal Bank of Canada This unfortunate incident has called forth universal comment. This is neither strange nor peculiar because Mr. Marcus Garvey is a public personage of tremendous prominence. Indeed, there is no man of any race who is more in the lime light of the present day than Mr.
Garvey is, and that is not without reason.
Our comment is neither derogatory nor prejudicial.
We desire only to make such comment in common, expressive of our opinion. We are profoundly interested in the man, and in all things said and done by him, and we desire to see him achieve success in the work which he has set himself to do.
His program is of tremendous magnitude. Some people think it impossible. In this we do not concur, because the program, as we understand it, is to work towards the redemption of his race from social degredation, economic stagnation, and racial deterioration to help them to shake off oppression (wherever it exists)
to urge them to become more active in the field of industry and to discourage them from going to sleep in a bed of unwholesome complacency, while around them is being stealthily weaved the ensnaring net of racial subjugation. We do not see anything impossible of accomplishment in these.
But we must seriously suggest that if Mr. Garvey is to make any progress in the prosecution of his plans for the improvement of his race, he should go cautiously and timely. We suggest that he should cool down somewhat that his public expressions should become more moderate, more dignified. It will do him no harm if he attaches some importance to the ancient saying. not every truth is to be told.
Mr. Garvey would be well advised if he refrains from saying such things as will be taken to be presump tuous. The term ignorant is not applicable to you, Mr. Garvey, said the learned Chief Justice of Jamaica, and so say we. Therefore, Mr. Garvey is well aware that scurrilous palaver, even in political speeches, is offensive and intolerable. There is no country in civilization where the official eye sees the like of such language in any other light, and it sees that language in the same light in Jamaica.
In quick succession. Mr. Garvey has had recorded against him two convictions for contempt. That certainly is prejudicial to him and to his cause. But the past can be covered, and in this instance, it can only be covered if Mr. Garvey will hold himself, and does not make it happen again. We sincerely hope he will do this. And we are not amiss if we attempt to remind Mr. Garvey of the scriptural statement, he that being often reproved and stiffeneth his neck shall be suddenly cut off, and that without remedy.
It a cinch that if there is any recurrence of contemptuous speech by Mr. Garvey in Jamaica, steps might be taken to suppress his activities altogether, and this, if you please, would be a calamity. We do not desire to see this, and we earnestly hope that there never will arise any necessity for the taking of a step so drastic.
Let Mr. Garvey note too, that his most formidable enemies are neither Judges nor Courts; but MEMBERS OF HIS OWN RACE. Behold, the enemy is in the camp with thee.
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The Squaring of Accounts The only sure reward for duty done is the reward ten precisely that which is the least known and, when that God has promised; and the next world is the place known, the least appreciated.
for that, though the happiness of a good conscience and of freedom from remorse is a reward in this world. The another; sometimes by an honest error, sometimes by The credit that belongs to one man is given to reward that the world promises for duty done is very deliberate dishonesty. The man who does a brave act uncertain, and those who deserve it most get the least of it and often they get none at all.
or an act of striking integrity and manliness, may have The heroes that the world applauds are in many the fortune to have it seen and published, or he may not cases boosted, boomed and faked heroes: while on the get the faintest recognition of it. And even when the other hand many of the truest heroes that have ever public applauds a man whose acts are admirable, he is lived have not been given even a small part of the praise soon forgotten. Never were there more manly acts of that was their due; and many of them have not been self sacrifice done than in the German war; but now afknown as heroes. The duty that is done most bravely ter a few short years they are in the way to be forgotand under the most disheartening circumstances in of ten. That is so far as the average soldier is concerned.
History will preserve the names of leaders, but who will remember the names and the deeds of the rank and file?
There is no doubt, then, that the rewards of the world are uncertain and fail a vast majority of cases.
Vice is rich and is petted and advertised and assisted; while virtue begs its bread. To those who have a sense of fair play, the conviction is forced home that there must be a reckoning and a dealing out of justice somewhere and sometime. That is what Christianity teaches; that there shall be a general judgment at which, in the sight of all men, all mankind shall have justice done and proclaimed. Record.