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...rate, believe the plantation Negroes of Jamaica. British officials in Kingston last month had posters put up throughout the island saying that Queen Victoria never did anything of the kind, but the Negroes went on buying barbed wire to put round their little pieces of land. Last week the British colony, faced with the job of explaining that no plantations were going to be divided, were ready for trouble...
...Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters on the sugar plantations at the east end of the island refused to work. The strike spread down the railroad to Kingston. Longshoremen, street cleaners, tobacco workers, bus drivers, lamp-lighters struck at once. Police were jittery, fired on crowds in the streets. The strikes were won, but some dozen Negroes were killed. For five months there were quick daily strikes on plantations...
...Provincial Government, and his Jew-baiting, corporatist teachings have fallen on approving ears in Canada's most conservative spot. But Leader Arcand has long aspired to become a national as well as a provincial politician, so last week he scheduled Canada's first national Fascist convention for Kingston...
Intermittently since then the old Jamaica story of low pay and virtual serfdom, has cropped up. Early last month sugar plantation workers rioted, caused several days' disturbances. Last week economic discontent reached the general-strike and general-riot stage in the island's capital, Kingston...
Shipping was tied up. all transportation services stopped, refuse and litter piled up on Kingston's streets. Armed only with stones, angry mobs forced Chinese grocers to close their shops, shut down the city's electric light plants, intercepted food vans and distributed the loot to their own hungry, underfed supporters...