LABOUR TROUBLE
BRITISH GUIANA
POLICE AID SENT
SUMMARY POWERS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 20, 10.45 a,m.)
RUGBY, August 19. A telegram from the Governor of British Guiana reports a recrudescence of labour trouble on plantations at Port Mourant, Albion, and Rose Hill, in Berbice County, and a plantation cane grove on the jMahaica River about 29 miles east of Georgetown.
Police have been sent to these estates, and the Governor has applied to them the special provisions of the summary jurisdiction of offences ordinance relating to disturbed districts. " s '
Following riots in Jamaica last May and June a British Official Wireless message stated that the officer administering the Government of Jamaica had announced in Kingston the immediate inauguration of a programme of land settlement throughout the island involving an expenditure of £500,000 as soon as normal conditions were restored. The needs of unemployed who wish to settle on the land are to receive special attenion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 9
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LABOUR TROUBLE
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 9
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