In the General Elections the Butler Party only won two seats. He was awarded the Trinity Cross , the nation's highest honour, in Categories : Trinidad and Tobago trade unionists Trinidad and Tobago politicians Trinidad and Tobago religious leaders births deaths. Your browser then provides that unique identifier to use each time You submit a query to the Site.
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They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. The unrest reached crisis proportions when on January 22, , followers of Butler who had crowded into Port-of-Spain, stormed the Red House. Port-of-Spain dock workers as well as public service worker were on strike, while in the oilfields the situation was critical, with rioting on the streets of Fyzabad and Point Fortin.
A time like this demands men, real men, men of opinion, men of will, men whom the lust of office cannot kill. Men with the soul of the Master, the mind of the Master to make sacrifices that others might enjoy a better an brighter day. Where I am standing I am in a position to tell you that I have sworn to serve you loyally, faithfully and well, unto the end.
There is no power in Heaven or in Hell for that matter to make me turn. There is no power, no bribe, to make me turn aside from the paths of truth and beauty and freedom.
Beauty and freedom and all that these contain fall not like ripened fruit about our feet. We climb to them through years of sweat and pain, without life's struggle's none do you attain. Yes, friends, I want you to take home with you the thought that at this very hour there are men and women who are greatly grieved at heart. I want you to conjure up in your minds the picture of an Ethiopian tent; a picture I drew before you a while ago; a picture of homeless people' a picture of gardens that were blooming but yesterday, now destroyed to make room for a tank spot.
I want you to take home with you the thought that these things will happen in the ordinary course of things, but that must not happen in Trinidad at the expense of poor humble village folks.
That's the idea. We want you as humble workers to feel, to realise, and to know that you are not alone in this fight for equal rights, and equal opportunities, for existence. All Rights Reserved. In , "Liberation," the organ of the NJAC National Joint Action Committee printed the last words of Butler from his death bed: "As long as there is a single worker whose shack is broken down and is told you have no place in the area the fight must go on.
There is much more about Butler's trade union activities in Trinidad. The focus of this page is to form a portrait of this Grenadian and his links to and impact on his homeland.
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