Word: serfdom
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...laughs at Nazi claptrap about race, blood, soil, considers Mein Kampf oldfashioned; 4) they plan to make Germany a base from which to conquer the world; 5) they expect a socialist "second revolution" which will destroy the last remnants of Christianity, individual freedom, reduce the German people to collective serfdom; 6) in alliance with Russia's "Genghis Khan fascism," National Socialism will then carve up the world...
Wrote New Dealer Cummings, whose department has prosecuted many a U. S. citizen for false income tax statements: "The alternatives open to the alien were to remain in Germany and be reduced to a state of penury and serfdom, or to seek another life in another land. ... I advise . . . granting him a visa...
There have been nearly as many revolutions in Jamaica as there have been earthquakes. In 1831 the slaves revolted; in 1865, finding serfdom no better than slavery, they revolted again. Both revolts were put down, with hanging and shooting. Life has not improved much since 1865 for the 1,000.000 Jamaica Negroes. Lately they have not been able to get work in other islands of the West Indies. A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3. Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering...
...blacks in Jamaica, her largest West Indian possession. Anticipating complete emancipation by seven years, Jamaica's slaves first rose in a quickly-crushed rebellion in 1831. Independent white planters, resentful of London interference, vehemently opposed the British Abolition of Slavery Act of 1833, kept the blacks in serfdom if not in slavery until 1865. That year they had the man's-size job of quelling a first-class black revolution in which 608 people were killed. Jamaica legend has it that some Negro participants in that revolt hid for years in the hills...
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...