of the planters; who have never scrupled to use force in suppressing any signs of discontent. This factor has been very much in evidence during the month of May in Jamaica. On May 2nd the workers on Frome Estate in the parish of Westmorland struck, and without any violence, dema
The children's outing will take place on July 13th. We hope to be able to send four coaches to Epsom and one to Bournemouth. We welcome the assistance of members of the League as stewards on this occasion. Tennis Parties will be arranged during the summer at the President's: 164
A glorious afternoon, a delightful garden and a genial host summoned some 80 of our members and their friends to the League of Coloured People's Fifth Annual Garden Party at Hutton, Essex on Saturday, June 25th. Roundwood, covering some ten acres of ground, is easily the most ch
and righteousness . . . . the bulwark of freedom and good government • . . . promoting the happiness, the peace, and the progress of mankind." These words of the noble lord must have fallen strangely on the ears of Jamaican labourers who at that very moment were opposing their b
The outstanding feature of the Anglo-Italian Agreement, signed in Rome on April 16th, was that it laid down the stages to facilitate the recognition by Britain and by other countries of the Italian conquest of Abyssinia. It was however stipulated that the agreement would only co
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala., June 17th.—Dr. George Washington Carver, world-famed Negro scientist who has developed milk, paints, dyes, paving blocks and several other commercial products from the lowly peanut, lies gravely ill at Tuskegee Institute hospital, it was learned on Mond
WE embark on our new volume with the confidence of seven years' work behind us. The League during those seven years has passed through many vicissitudes but despite many handicaps has always steadfastly kept before it the end for which it was founded—the welfare of coloured peop
with us in our aims. But the primary obligation is of necessity on members of the League. We invite articles, poems, critiques, what you will. Regard us as your confessor. Send us anything you like. If not published it will be treated with the strictest confidence. Only do regar