Crime in Trinidad and Tobago - Riots and Civil Unrest in Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indian Labour Unrest of 1934-1939, Hosay Massacre (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Riots and Civil Unrest in Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indian Labour Unrest of 1934-1939, Hosay Massacre, Canboulay Riots, Black Power Revolution, Jamaat Al Muslimeen Coup Attempt, Social Unrest in Trinidad and Tobago, 1903 Water Riots. Excerpt: The British West Indian labour unrest of 19341939 encompassed a series of disturbances, strikes and riots in the United Kingdom's Caribbean colonies. These began as the Great Depression wore on and ceased on the eve of World War II. The unrest served to highlight inequalities of wealth, led the British government to attempt a solution to the problem, and in some cases spurred the development of indigenous party politics that would lead to self-government and independence in the postwar period. Various starting points for the cycle of disturbances have been proposed: the February 1934 labour agitation in British Honduras (which ended in a riot in September) the May-July 1934 sugar estate disturbance on Trinidad (which broke out on several estates in the central sugar belt, involving over 15,000 Indian estate labourers) and the January 1935 Saint Kitts sugar strike. In any event, after St Kitts (which turned into a general strike of agricultural labourers) came a March strike in Trinidad's oilfields and a hunger march to Port of Spain. In Jamaica labour protests broke out in May on the island's north coast. Rioting among banana workers in the town of Oracabessa was succeeded by a strike of dockworkers in Falmouth which ended in violence. In September and October there were riots on various sugar estates in British Guiana; there had been strikes the previous September on five sugar estates on the west coast of Demerara. In October rioting also took place on St Vincent in Kingstown and Camden Park... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17915287