PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930 APPLIED EDUCATION EDITORIAL COMMENT UNITY OF PURPOSE THE WORKMAN The Twenty six Points in Mr. Carvey Political Plank Mr. Garvey Takes Seat at Corporation Council 20 The following is the Manifesto of Mr. Marcus Garvey setting forth Publiebed on Saturday H. WALROND, at the office No 72 CARLOS MENDOZA Street No. 72, Panama, the twenty six points of the Political programme in his campaign for election in the Jamaica Legislative Council.
PO Box 74, Panama Box 1102, Ancon It is well to be noted that before he went to prison, Mr. Garvey RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION programme contained 14 points only, but now he has twenty six. The ONE YEAR. 40 Cy.
other 12 new points were made while he was in the St. Catherine Prison.
SIX MONTHS.
Dear Friends: THREE. 60 This is to inform you that have consented to come forward in ONE MONTH. 20 contesting the vacant seat for the Parish of St. Andrew in the LegislaThe Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of our rights JUNIUS live Council. In entering the contest to represent the parish am actuated by the best motives that of serving the people and serving our THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930 country, If elected shall do everything in my power working in cor.
poration with the other members of the Council to make effective by law FROGS AND WEEVILS the following: Representation in the Imperial Parliament or a larger modicum of self government for Jamaica.
Our friend first named has been defined in several Protection of native labour.
ways. All these definitions describe him completely, minimum wage for the labouring and working classes of the however, and each is governed by the degree of similiisland.
tude or circumstanee by which relationship is established. For instance, when we speak of frog the am law to protect the working and labouring classes of the counphibian, we understand that our speech has reference try by insurance against accidents, sickness and death, caused during to an ugly looking four footed animal, having four toes employment.
on the fore feet, and five on the hind, more or less web5. law to compel the employment of not less than 60 per cent of bed, and its body naked. This kind of a frog has the penative labour in all industrial, agricultural and commercial activities culiarity of being ribless, and like man, has no tail. Then, engaged in, in this island.
there is another kind of frog which is not an animal The expansion and improvement of city, town or urban areas but an iron plate of triangular shape, used as a track without the incumbrance or restraint of private proprietorship.
support on a Railroad where one line branches off from An hour working day throughout Jamaica.
another, or crosses it at an oblique angle. There is yei law to encourage the promotion of native industries.
another kind of frog a kind of fastening for a gown, Land reform.
somewhat in the form of a tassel or spindle shaped 10. The compulsory improvement of urban areas from which large button, covered with silk or other material which is profits are made by trusts, corporations, combines or companies.
passed through a loop or similar contrivance.
11. Jamaica University and Polytechnic.
Now, there is some similarity between these three 12. The establishing of a Government High School in the capital kinds of frog. They bear some relation to each other in town of each parish for the supply of free secondary education. At.
form, use, or otherwise, and these various similarities tached to the said High School to be a night continuation school to establish the reason for the calling of all of them by the facilitate those desiring to study at night for the advance of their edu.
same name.
cation.
As to Weevils. This is a kind of insect with long snout which it uses for destructive purposes. They are 13. public library in the capital town of each parish.
related to the family of beetles, and are more or less 14. National Opera House with an Academy of Music and Art.
15. Prison reform.
of the same propensities. The principal work of both insects however, is the destruction of vegetation and the 16. Legal and judicial reform.
products thereof.
17. The appointing of official court stenographers to take the offiIt has been said and admitted that between men and cial notes of all court proceedings in the Supreme Court, Resident Magwomen and other animals, there are many similarities.
istrate Courts and Petty Session Courts of the island.
Some are physical, others temperamental, and so forth, 18. The creation by law of a legal Aid Department to render advice and it is in respect to the last named that we wish to and protection to such persons who may not be able to have themselves make a few comparisons to day, between men and frogs, properly represented and protected in courts of law.
and women and weevils.
19. law for the imprisonment of any person who by duress or certain writer, in depicting the escapades of undue influence would force another person to vote in any public eleccertain men whose activities were considered detrition against his will, because of obligation of employment or otherwise.
mental to the best interests of his community, described 20. The granting to the townships of Montego Bay and Port Anthose men as human frogs. He said that these men tonio the corpora to rights of cities.
were like the frog big mouthed assumptive of much 21. law to empower the Government to secure a loan of three wisdom which was really folly wise looking though million or more pounds from the Imperial Government or otherwise to actually foolish bluffs a plenty on emptiness of head, be used by the Government under the management of a department of pocket, and even character swells up and makes great the Director of Agrieulture in developing the crown lands of the island, noises to attract the attention of the hillarious and agriculturally and otherwise with the object of supplying employment curious. We believe that wherever that community for our surplus unemployed population and to find employment for was, the description given those men was appropriate stranded Jamaicans abroad, and that the Government purchase such ships We are of this belief because in our own community we as are necessary from time to time to facilitate the marketing of the see men who would be properly described if they were produce gathered from those crown lands and at the same time concalled frogs. Year in and year out, we behold them veniently offering an opportunity to other producers to ship and market darting about from place to place, spouting, spitting, their produce.
looking wise; but in truth and in fact, they are only de 22. The beautifying and creating of the Kingston Race Course into monstrating the propensities of a frog. The sound of National Park similar to Hyde Park in London.
their meaningless croakings are both familar to our 28. The establishing by the Government of an eleetrical system to ears, and loathsome to our taste. We see the nakedness supply cheap electricity to such growing and prospering centres as are of their bodies like that of the frog, moistened and wet necessary.
with the venom of hypocrisy, deception, and swindle.
24. law to establish clinical centres from which trained nurses Likewise, at a certain period in the distant past, a are to be sent out to visit the homes in rural districts and to teach and woman social worker described some of her sex as social demonstrate sanitary and better health methods in the care of home and weevils. We believe also that this woman knew where family.
of she spoke, for in nowise has the ways of a woman changed since those days. Isn it a fact that in the 26. law to empower the Parochial Board of each Parish to undertake under the direction of the Central Government the building of present day there are the women who do little more be. model sanitary homes for the peasantry by the system of easy payment sides destroying the seeds of feminine propriety and the to cover a period of from 10 to 20 years.
fruits of social purity in the land? Isn it a further fact that there are women who, like the weevils, are per26. law to prevent criminal profiteering in the sale of lands in urban and suburban areas to the detriment of the expansion of healthy petually boring into the confines of our social structure home life for citizens of moderate means profiteering such as indulged with their horn like tongues, and are therby reducing ini, in lower St. Andrew by heartless land sharks.
that structure to dust and ashes, and destroying it?
The answer to these questions are yea, and Amen, am asking for your vote also that you use your good influence in securing others to vote for me on election day.
and let us hope that to morrow they can be answered Nay!
With very best wishes, have the honour to be In the meantime, and while men are exemplifying Your Obedient Servant, the conduct of frogs, and women that of weevils, the MARCUS GARVEY whole creation is in travail and groaneth. The sun of Candidate for Election to Legislative Council perfection stands still in the firmament of convivial to represent the Parish of St. Andrew.
complacency, and the meridian is obscured from view.
The social, economic, and intellectual growth of posterity is being dwarfed and made stunted, because of the deDENTIST HOWELL predations of frogs and weevils who sophisticate, corDRY CLEANING rupt, and contaminate the social system.
If these things be true, and there is no saying to House No. 912 La Boca STEAM PRESSING the contrary, let the frogs be destroyed, and the weevils exterminated, for EVIL COMMUNICATIONS CORDYEING RUPT GOOD MANNERS.
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will be tendered by the Town Clerk Pay of Labourers and will attest the same.
Councillor Garvey gave notice that Mr. Garvey: desire, Your Wor at the next meeting he would move; ship, to subscribe to the oath of That all male labourers employed office.
to, working under the direction or Mr. Garvey, having taken the cus serving the interest of the Kingston tomary oath before the Mayor and and St. Andrew Corporation be paid Town Clerk, took his seat.
a minimum of not less than per Notices of Motion day and that all female labourers Alderman Drew gave notice that at similarly engaged be paid a mini.
mum of not less than 6 per day the next meeting of the Council he would move: That whereas the reas enrly as possible; and that this quirements of Law 22 of 1914 in. minimum shall not affect paying the cludes the provision that new roads said labourers by merit at rates above the minimum, and that re.
shall be of 40 feet width and that whereas experience has shown that presentation be made to the Legisla this width is excessive in small town tive Council to increase the estimate ships and a financial embarassment he standard working of all employ.
to the Corporation in respect of aceprdingly.
greatly increased cost of mainte. Councillor Garvey also gave notice nance; be it resolved, that this Counto move; That an eight hour day cil respectfully appeal to His Ex. be standard working of all employ.
celleney the Governor to have Law ees, labourers, and workers of the 22 of 1914 amended to allow the width Kingston and St. Andrew Corporatior of new streets and roads being reto take effect from the 1st February duced to 30 feet instead of 40 feet; 1930.
the Council to have prepared a Sanitary Department schedule of the list of townships Councillor Beecher gave notice that where this amendment would affect. at the next meeting he would move; Councillor Fernandez gave notice That whereas this Council has al.
that at the next meeting of the Coun ready agreed on the re organizatior cil be would move; that whereas the of the Sanitary Department, includ.
population of the district known as ing street cleaning, scavenging, and Smith Village, Kingston, has so in gully cleaning by resolutions of Alcreased and whereas properties have derman Drew and been improved and roadways are be Beecher; that the committee start on ing gradually improved and bridges its work immediately.
erected making the place to have a Coun. Dillon gave notice to move better appearance and whereas the at the next meeting: That a Comname village is somewhat antiquat. mittee be appointed to visit the ed and not suitable at present to the respective districts of the two sub.
said area and in accordance with urban Wards of the Corporate Area modern improvement and growing and report upon their condition with importance of that paot of the respect to roads sanitary lighting Corporate Area of Kingston and etc. with a view to improvement.
Saint Andrew. Be it therefore reVote of Welcome solved that in future the said district Councillor Clough said this was the shall hereafter be named and knowr first occasion on which a member of as Smith Town instead of the Council has been sworn in and nc Smith VHlage. Continued on Page 8) Coro TODO 1050 BIG GAIN OF 15, 000 The Great Egyptian Dream Book Is truly giving satisfaction. woman recently had a Dream, purchased one of these books and got the interpretation of her dream from which she obtained the above sum See page 30 of one of these books ON SALE AT No. Calidonia Road, Panama ALSO AT the Greek Fruit Stand, No. 088 Bolivar Street, olon PRICE 75c. ONLY When purchasing see to it that the picture of a: Camel is on the cover OPOL Opo RRRRRRR Phone 453 TROTT The Cleaner PANAMA We Dye To Live 15 STREET PANAMA