Celebrated on June 19th, it is the anniversary of the day of the Butler Oilfield Riots which took place in Prior to this time there were ongoing tensions between workers and employers in many sectors of society. These were characterized by situations of worker abuse, underpayment for labour, racism, economic depression and a considerable fall in the living standards of the working class.
Between and workers became more influenced by a need for change resulting in strikes and riots on the sugar plantations and in the oil fields and in September , the Oilfield Workers Trade Union OWTU also became the first registered trade union in the country representing the rights of those in the petroleum industry. R James. During a labour dispute on the Port-of-Spain wharves in November , Captain Andrew Arthur Cipriani called on the workers to withhold their labour, and this resulted in their first important industrial strike in Trinidad.
George Weekes, another well known Trade Unionist, possessed a powerful political leadership style which moved people toward a confidence to stand for what was just and right.
He gave them a vision that planted seeds of liberation to move beyond salaries and working conditions — along the road of self, world view, economics and government. Albert Maria Gomes became a City Councilor and Legislator who fought for social and political justice for the people of Trinidad. James and which led to the recognition of excellent literary works in later years from writers such as Earl Lovelace, Merle Hodge and many others from Trinidad and Tobago.
Adrian Cola Rienzi served as the mayor of San Fernando in November and administered the borough for three consecutive terms, until November He was a member of the franchise committee which was appointed in , and strongly advocated universal adult suffrage. Vincent born Elma Francois became a founding member of the National Unemployed Movement and its more radical successor, the Negro Welfare, Cultural and Social Association, to which she devoted the rest of her life.
Regarded as one of the most celebrated thinkers of Trinidad and Tobago, and the whole Commonwealth Caribbean, C. R James was against colonialism and against racial prejudice in all its forms and he began to formulate his thoughts on the just and classless society.
Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler. Declared a national holiday in , Labour Day celebrated on June 19th is the anniversary of the day the Butler Oilfield Riots took place.
Formed because of the heightened awareness of ill-treatment on the sugar plantations and oilfields, was the first registered trade union in Trinidad and Tobago — Oilfield Workers Trade Union OWTU. It is also generally recognized as the beginning of the modern trade union movement.
The collection of groups came together to form the Trinidad Labor Party to show that it had now become a political party. On June 18, , oil workers at the forest reserve began a huge strike. This was done under the leadership of a man named Tubal Uriah Butler. The day after, he was arrested, and there were riots and civil unrest, leading to the death of two police offers and nine civilians.
During the same year in September, the men who worked the oil fields created the first trade union, registered in Trinidad.
In November, factory workers and sugar plantation workers joined suit.
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