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Yesterday, it was reported that the military have bean mobilised in Jamaica ar result of further disorders. The author of this articlo spent several months in the. troubled area.
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HERE is irony in the fact that Jamaican natives have just celebrated the centenary of their emancipation from slavery.
These labourers, as they bend beneath a kindly aun to cut the cane with their gleaming machotes, яте picturesque figures to those British people who look upon Jamaica as អ But in the
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scrub behind the sugar estates and banana plantations condi- tions are anything but picture- sque. It soon becomes evident
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Why should this poverty exist in an island where the soil is so rich that it will grow almost tropical or sub-tropical fruits? The people arc industrious enough. Despite their African origin and a suggestion of tro- pical languor, the labourers in the field toil from early dawn until late evening. And, as was shown during the construction
Alex Bustamante.
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Hin volco carries like a high wind.
And on some sugar estates I have visited these conditions are definitely bad. Some workers live in little huts which can only be described as dog-kennels.
In these wooden boxes, liable to
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Naval Expansion Plans
London.
be awept away in a hurricane, WHEN the Navy Estimates live whole families. Pigs grunt
are presented in the House
and root in a patch outside, the of Commons the programme of patch. representing the family's shipbuilding for the ensuing 12 food supply. Many workers do, months, beginning with April, not even possess
will be on a bigger 'scale than houses, but live in gipsy fashion among the in any previous year since 1919. coconut trees. Others have sold and increase of personnel as Hoplacement, new construction..
IN JAMAICA
well as increase in estimated expenditure will all be of ab- normal dimensions,
Among naval experts and in political elreles alike, opinion is un- aninious that the scale' will be ex-
view is fo
in regard to the details of the
of no programme new construction.
The most authoriladiyo estimsies place the 1939 prograinne as al- most certain to provide for five new battleships, three to be laid down without delay and the ofher two towards the end of the finan- cial 'year.
QUESTION OF TONNAGE Three of these five battleships will
tons, but the latter tonnage may be
A minimum of ten new cruisers of the smaller class is assured, and two natillas of destroyers will be In- cluded in the progamine.
There is no indication that the Admiralty attach the some Import- construction of sub-
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of the present work in Central When a big concern such as the roofing to their huts in septional. The only difference in America, the thousands of Messrs: Tate and Lyle arrived order to pay Government taxes. Jamaicans employed there give in the island about a year ago For the most part Jamaican embarras de richesses surely general satisfaction.
and decided to spend something labour is uncomplaining and applies to the United States in
The inevitable reply is that developing sugar estates, there something of
like a million pounds buying and peaceful, The people possess regard to gold. Never before Jamaica is overcrowded. At the was a certain amount of hostility African happiness which even that inherent has the United States held so moment the inland supports a from the old planter aristocracy. the direst poverty cannot dispel. much of the world's gold. A population of about a million and Rumours that modern labour- But again, like week ago it amounted
the Africans, 29 a quarter. Cuba, which has saving devices would be intro- they can easily be roused to a much as 56 per cent. of the been employing some thousands duced spread among the workers, passion that becomes berserk in be of 35,000 tons and two of 40.000. world's stock or three-fifths of Jamaican workers, is now The fact that Messrs. Tate and its rage. It is these passions higher should there be any confirma- the total,
repatriating these men, as there Lyle publicly announced is no work for them in the neigh- they sought the betterment of towns are
that which certain agitators in the tion of the long-current report that It so happens that this is bouring island.
now playing upon. Japan is building up to a limit of Haiti, too, is labour conditions did not help And it is to the towns, particu-45,000 tons. Repercussions of other regarded as the ratio of Ameri-banning the immigration of their initial dealings with the larly Kingston, that the unem-refceted in the progomic.
International developments will be Jamaicans because of her own older established planters, power to the world's. There is no definite Jamaicans, unemployed for the poverty. And these returning
ployed and unemployable swarm. index of material power.
That powerful body, the Sugar But most part, add to the argument Manufacturers' Association, met GRAND CHINESE NEW YEAR ATTRACTION! bank credit give the United overcrowded.
such indexes as steel output and of those who state the island is in Kingston with representatives
of Messrs. Tate and Lyle. The faced Alex Bustamante, a flam- marines in such comparatively large
Much may be heard of thin-ance to States three-fifths rating.
outcome of the conference was There should be none
But the argument is fallacious. that the wages of labourere on boyantly-speaking figure at most numbers as some other European anklety such as seems generally bilities of development in this and Messrs. Tate and Lyle re-
of the Keen economists point out possi- all estates were slightly raised, mass meetings of unemployed in fece with ugh there will be an increase new but Kingston. My own impression numerous escort to be felt in America that the island of 2,848,160 acres. There served to themselves the right of him is that he desires ardently draught and high speed will United States will be left "hold-are, for example, some 413,440 to make whatever provision for to become a martyr in Jamnica, ordered. ing the bag as the world's cres of swamp and marsh land the welfare of their workers prototype of Uriah Butler in custodian of gold.
which could easily be drained they would decide upon. It was claims through
Trinidad. Nightly his voice de- and set to. cultivation. Another reason is that the there are Crown lands, number the Frome estate to build cot- wind into the remote country- Then the body of artisans called in to Kingston and carries like a high the streets of present inward movement ising 300,000 acres. Because of tages for the workers who even- artificial. In the present state continual agitation by natives tually provoked the strike which side of Jamaica. There is of European alarm, frightened for some form of land settle- led to such fatal results.
WORK 'FOR CLYDE YARDS? something Epstein-like in his money holders are transferring
The opinion is expressed auth- poses before the crowd, and there oritatively that cerisin shipyards on their wealth into dollars, which
It has been emphasised that it is ho doubt that the crowd be the Clyde and the Tyne as well as were available at the United Land hunger is very evident in was town labourers taken to lleve in him.
royal dockyards will be given work Jamaica, 5 well States Treasury in return for hunger; and if the island were
as bodily Westmoreland who provoked the An extraordinary individual, cough to tax them to their utmost
trouble. There is the obvious a money-lender,
capacity. gold at $35 an ounce. Thus properly
Clydebank and the' "Tyne a" powerful developed it could reply that cane-field workers speaker, and an incessant letter- practically assured each of the much of America's gold hoard maintain another half-million have been depressed for so writer to Labour M.P.8 in
contract for a battlestup. and is refugee capital. It follows people easily.
many years that only the intro- England and the local news-)
strong claims have been advanced that, as soon as the fears in
by the Government of Northern It is the sugar and banana provoke them to revolt against is no doubt that Jamaica is an
duction of town agilators would papers. Listening to him there Ireland for Belfast securing one of Europe subside, gold will start plantations that provide a bitter their present conditions.
the major contracts. to flow outward, as European planters have endeavoured to sweet atmosphere. Sovernl
island of despair. money holders, their fears at give their labourers decent living reat, scok to repatriate their conditions. These same planters capital for money-making use.
ANOTHER'S LOVE SONG TOLD THEM THEY WERE IN LOVEI
Hot-headed young romance . . . Turbulent as the timosi Torn by misunderstanding... tender with
.... Forgiving ... enduring through
the years... like the melody that inspired itt
Irving Berlin's ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
An American Cavalcade
with
TYRONE ALICE
DON
POWER - FAYE - AMECHE
and
ETHEL MERMAN JACK HALEY JEAN HERSHOLT • HELEN WESTLEY JOHN CARRADINE PAUL HURST WALLY VERNON, RUTH TERRY Directed by Henry King Featuring a pageant of Irving Berlin songs including; 26 favorites of yesteryear and 2 amosh hits of fomartow "NOW. IT CAN BE TOLD", and "MY WALKING STICK"!
Darryl F. Zanuck in Charge of Production
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
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Count the
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everywhere
been set aside. ment, 12,500 of these acres have
recognise that such conditions make for contentment, even if
ex-sugar cane makes for discontent. the working wage for cutting ex-It is. theac planters who, after long hereditary ownership, are recognised as the aristocracy of Jamaica. Several of them have mixed with native blood, but that has assured their continu- ance.
Only with political, appease ment can these alarms and curalons on the foreign changes be avoideri, Sorrow for Spain
Pity the people of Spain whose war moves into a dreadful, maybe final, resistance without hope. Pity brave men who tur at hay, battered by an over- whelming weight of arms. Pity for older men who dig feverishly the hasty trenches that will be graves to-morrow,
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Ono end only there can be, whether it comes through a sudden cracking or drags on slow torture.
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One ond only, unless France steps in, the only. Power that can change the fortune of this war in a day.
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The planters, particularly those owning sugar estates, aro among the most powerful groups in Jamaica. They have not hesitated to depose English Governors who challenged their autocracy. On the other hand, recent years have seen world economic factors challenging their existence the develop- mant of, sugar beet growing, world sugar quotas and general economic, depression.
..Sugar estates which received To all who fight against a tremendous illip during the appalling odds, to all lost causes Great War are now declifing manfully defended, admiration sadly. The labourer, for his and serrow go out. For the hire, still receives a matter of innocent victims of ambition and five or seven shillings weekly, hatred, the children and the after tilling his own little plot women, the heart keeps its pity) for two or three days in a de
Let there be an ond; ht shyperate effort to foed Himself and price an end, of the horsfr. la family,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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The development; of "the" "FleetTM Ale Arm will be signalised by inore new aircraft carriers, and there will bo many sloops and other small vessels provided for fakeeping with developments near and far beyond these shores.
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Whatever changes there may be in the international situation in the next month or so or as the result of the Rome conversations, the dimen-. sions of the now naval provision are more likely to be increased than modified this year in accordance with the Government's declared polley of expansion and ̈“acceleration of all. branches of national defenco.
Captain Shot Dead In Cabin CAPTAIN W. E. DIXON, of the
London coastal steamer. Surreybrook (862 tons), was. found shot dead in his cabin. when the vessel docked at Fowey, Cornwall, recently,
The Polruan pilot, Henry Salt, who had boarded the Surreybrook about a mile from Fowey Harbour to bring her into port, was told by the captain: "I am feeling unwell. Will you bring her in willout me?”
Captain Dixon. then retired to his cabin and Pliot Salt brought in the vessel,
REVOLVER NEAR BY
When she had been moored, pilot.“ and male went to the captain's cabin. and found him lying dead on the Anar. A revolver was near by
The body has been removed to Polruan for an Inquest.
Mr. J. C. Shaw, part owner of the Surreybrook, told the Notes Chronicle that Captain Dixon euns from South- East London And hot only been. In the ship winca. Desember (akra He leaves a widow, S
Bum and we cannot understandi Itu added MR Shawin