PAGE SI THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930 FOREIGN AND GENERAL Claim Workers in South are Starving Colonial Development Fund Many Blacklisted for Alleged Strike Interest Resolution of Sympathy ter?
13, 500 PEOPLE Order invaluable. We the Of fieers and Members of Court Diana No. Lebanon Foresters Inc. in Court here assembled do hereby.
RESOLVE: BRITISH GUIANA What are the nature of the That effect be given to the recomThat in token of the respect and SCHEMES SUBMITTED proposals if any made in this connex. mendations, if not the whole, in part of unemployed and blacklisted Neesteem held for the deceased that ion. at least made by Mr. Leggate in his pro and white workers in the South the business of the Court be suspendProtest Against Ignoring Reply: request for assistance report on transport in the interior.
are starving. This is the message ed for one minute, while the memThe building of a properly equipCouncil has been made, and a scheme subwent to the Workers International bers in token of their bereavement mitted to the Secretary of State, for ped airport in or near Georgetown.
Rellet, 949 Broadway, New York stand with bowed heads.
Reliet of interest on Sewerage OPPORTUNITY FOR opening an alternative transport route Scheme City, by Leaksville worker. Lebanon Foresters Mourn BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: DISCUSSION WANTED from Bartica to Butukari on the EsImprovement and extension whose name is being withheld to of the Loss of Dudley That as a mark of respect for the sequebo River as an alternative to existing water protect him. Leaksville is the town Demerara. At Wednesday meet the transport system recently operat throughout the colony more partisupply schemes departed our Dispensation and imwhere textile strike recently ocE. Rice plements be draped in black for a ing of the British Guiana Legislative ed by Messrs. Sprostons, Limited.
curred. The worker letter states: cularly the East Demerara Water period of thirty days.
Whereas: Council the Hon. Owen, acting From local reports thousands of What bodies, if any have been Supply and Lamaha Canais, which It has pleased the Supreme Grand AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: Colonial Secretary, gave the follow consulted by Government in this mat supply fresh water to the East Coast workers, both black and white, are ing replies to questions by the Hon.
starving in more than 86 counties of Ruler of the Universe, in His Infinite That a copy of this Resolution be of Demerara, Georgetown and the Webber relative to the this state. Thousands of workers, of Goodness to remove from our midat, spread on the face of the minutes, a Reply. The Georgetown Chamber East Bank of Demerara.
Colomial Development Fund: course, are unemployed, and when and laken unto Himself the soul of of Commerce and the Sugar Planters Consideration of these suggestions copy deposited in the archives of they were employed they only re our Eesteemed and Beloved Brother What steps, if any, have been Association, both of which bodies has been temporarily postponed, first Our Court a copy sent to the bereavceived enough to pay about one half Dudley Rice late Secretary of ed family and copy to each Press taken by Government to enable Brit have been consulted by the Govern due to Sir Gordon Guggisberg abof their real expenses. Thus the the above named Court, whose sad ish Guiana to participate in the Im ment regarding schemes in connec sence from the colony, and later of this city (Viz) the Star Herald whole family was forced to work perial Government demise occurred at the Gorgas Hos Workman, and Panama Tribune, for Development tion with which assistance might be pending the arrival of the new GovBut now many of the workers have pital on Wednesday at 8:30 publication Loan asked for from the Fund, and have ernor, but the Government is already been blacklisted for strike activity February 12th, 1980 Reply: The Secretary of State has suggested the following: in communication with the Secretary and even if one of them gets employbeen informed that Government inAND WHEREAS: That assistance be given by way, of of State for the Colonies regarding ment the pay is not enough to keep tends to ask for assistance to con interest or grants in aid to schemes resistance for the establishment of the family By the death of said Brother Dud BUY FROM THE WORKMAN tinue and to carry to completion the for drainage and irrigation in the suitable Air Port.
ley Rice our Lodge has lost In other centers where there was ADVERTISERS AND GET programme agreed upon for sinking counties of Demerara, Berbice and When is it intended to consult no strike, thousands of Negro and one of its honest, efficient, and faithartesian wells in the more populous Essequebo, and to pure water supthe Legislative Council for its approful workers whose services to the VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY white workers are unemployed. The areas of the colony ply.
val or otherwise of any schemes preplight of the Negro workers is par pounded and an opportunity given ticularly terrible.
this Council to substitute any others The Workers International Relief if so desired. has started a campaign to aid the ODO ReplyThe Council will be conSouthern textile ODOODOS workers in their sulted in each case as soon as struggle against their present un schemes have been formulated and bearablt conditions. It has opened Government has been informed of the Southern headquarters at Charlotte, on which assistance, if any, with Caroline Drew, who dihas been offered. If assistance should rected the Southern relief activities take the form of loan, with or of the during the Gastonia without interest, the capital sum of strike, in charge. Kitchens to feed which will have to be repaid by the the children of unemployed and viccolony, it will be necessary to obtain timized workers will be established the sanction of the Legislative Counand locals organized in varieil before any expenditure of such ous towns. In all these activities loan funds is approved.
the Workers International Relief NOTICE OF MOTION fights against all race discrimination In connection with the above Mr.
and strives to unite the Negro and Webber gave notice of the following white workers in the common strug.
motiongle against their oppressors. The Whereas the Executive GovernW. also supports the campaign ment had admitted in its reply to a of the militant National Textile series of questions by the Junior Workers Union, which is organizing Member for Berbice that it has con.
both the black and white workers of sulted other bodies while ignoring the South for a struggle to improve this Council with respect to any their conditions.
schemes to be submitted to the SecreFunds for the campaign in tary of State for the participation of the South should be sent to the nathis colony in the Imperial Developtional office of the Workers Internament Loan; and tional Relief, 949 Broadway, Room 60 at 00 60 Whereas it is desirable before the 812, New York City.
Secretary of State gives considera 60 at 00 11. 60 tion to any scheme or schemes on THE PASSPORT PROBLEM behalf of the colony that the Legisla4. 60 at 25 13. 60 tive Council should have had opporLONDON. stateless person 40 tunity eitht to support, supplement, at 50 15. 40 was the term, apied by Foreign or condemn those schemes submitted Secretary Arthur Henderson in the 60 at 50 16. 60 by the Execultive; House of Commons to women of Be it resolved that the Elected British nationality who marry members of the Council request that Americans.
YOU CAN BURN 50 WATT LAMP FOR FIVE HOURS PER DAY FOR LESS telegram be despatched to the SecThe Secretary stated that a British retary of State for the Colonies askwoman marrying an American, ceases THAN THIS NEWSPAPER COST YOJ ing him to defer consideration of the to be a British subject, thus having schemes submitted until this Council to comply with all requirements for had an opportunity of expressing ito aliens, including registration with opinion on those schemes; and the police when stopping in British Be it further resolved, that a copy towns.
of this motion with the debata Under the law of the United States thereod be submitted to the Secretary however, an alien woman marrying of State for his information.
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