Persona históriko

Sugar workers

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📍 Guyana

Sugar workers

Hénero: Homber

Eventonan Relashoná

Talks at Non Pareil fail to settle the sugar strike

📅 15 Yüni 1948

On 15 June 1948, workers and estate representatives met at Plantation Non Pareil, but the discussions did not resolve the strike. The workers had rejected the cut-and-load system and the estate’s...

Sugar workers march to bury the Enmore dead

📅 17 Yüni 1948

On 17 June 1948, workers and mourners marched from Plantation Enmore toward Le Repentir cemetery in Georgetown with the funeral hearses of the five workers killed by police. The march transformed a...