The “Labourers March” on Sauteurs / Trinidad’s 1919-20 Stevedores Strike
Reading Time 1 minsThe “Labourers March” on Sauteurs (January 11, 1848) was the dramatic highpoint of an industrial’ action initiated on December 22,1847, arguably the dawn of collective political life in post-emancipation Grenada. Coming just a decade following the abolition of chattel slavery, the Sauteurs protest pitted ex-slaves against the former masters. Labour Day in Grenada must remember the courage of the St Patrick’s labourers, the Country’s proto-trade unionists. Trinidad’s 1919-20 Stevedore’s Strike enlarged the political and ideological imagination of the “dock workers”. This historic action produced several songs , including : The English say we can live on two… Read More »The “Labourers March” on Sauteurs / Trinidad’s 1919-20 Stevedores Strike