STRIFE IN JAMAICA
TRIAL OF “PRIME MINISTER” UNIONISTS ENFORCE HOLIDAY KINGSTON (Jamaica). (Rec. 11 p.m.) July 4. With the police looking on helplessly hundreds of followers of William Bustamante, the self-styled Prime Minister of Jamaica, roamed the wharves, attacking labourers who continued to work when Bustamante was on trial for manslaughter. Shouting, “We will follow Bustamante until we die.” the mob raided the office of a rival union leader, Seymor Warner, and in the ensuing gunfire two Bustamante men were wounded. The city is in a state of tension to-night.
Bustamante, who is the chief of the British West Indies Trade Unions, and also Frank Pixley. Jamaica's Minister of Social Services, were acquitted on Tuesday on charges of manslaughter resulting from the death of a man during a labour row in Kingston's mental hospital last February. While the trial was proceeding Bustamante unionists declared a work holiday.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26197, 6 July 1946, Page 7
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