THE NORTHEAST FACADE | of the Trinidad Hilton. This is the main block of guest rooms built "upside down" from the | scaped grounds, park below and, a little farther away, Port of Spain and the sea top lobby floor. Each room has its own private balcony from which one may view the land- Independence For Trinidad, | as THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, August 30, 1962 9 A Bg ee yea OS A AO PE A Som Pate 3 Debate Speech Order', Queried In Commons OTTAWA (CP)--Before you,Jarises from. the practice that,to defeat the government with Alphonse, is the impolite ar- gument being used these days involving the two smaller op- position parties in the Com- mons. Their object is io gain a spot in the speaking and voting or- der in the House from which they can rock the boat but not be accused of capsizing it. The boat in this case is the Conservative government's ten- ure: of office, which could be ended by all three opposition parties--Liberal, Social Credit and New Democratic--combin- ing their voting strength against the government on a non-confidence motion. The jockeying for position MRA Indians Of Canada Praised MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (CP)--A Brazilian general at. tending the Moral Re-Arma- ment assembly Wednesday praised "'the creative and con- structive work" done by Cana- dian. Indians in Latin America in the last year Gen. Calimerio | Santos, Military Staff Colleg, said: "Everywhere they have awak.| the opposition parties cast their|its votes or keep the Conser- {th votes in the order in which | their leaders or chief spokes.|against the other opposition par- men speak during major de-| bates, such as the' lead - off} throne speech debate of the par-} liamentary session which opens Sept. 27. Thus Opposition Leader Pear- son will speak first in the! throne speech debate because he's leader of the opposition. The prime minister always re- plies. THOMPSON WOULD BE LAST If New Democratic House Leader H. W. Herridge speaks next, that leaves Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson. with among the party leaders. So when voting time comes the opposition parties would cast their votes in the order of Liberals, New Democrats and Social Credit If Liberals and New Demo- crats voted together on a non- confidence motion, Social Credit would have to decide whethgr! |New Democrats in the uncom- e last speaking position) Aj |among whips of the four parties jand the presiding officers of the vatives in office by voting ties, reaping whatever political blame the electorate might at- tach to their action, With 30 MPs against 19 New Democrats, Social Credit might lay claim to the speaking--and voting -- position immediately after the Liberals, leaving the fortable last spot. But NDP party whip Stanley Knowles argues that the speak. ing spot immediately after the official opposition , belongs to the parity whose members have greatest seniority of service in the commons. Jn that basis, the New Dem- ocrats qualify with their MPs, whose length of Commons ser- vice ranges from thre to 15 sessions. The question is to be thrashed out next month at a meeting Commons before the opening of Parliament. formal Clothing "en, Camere somo BOVCOtL Agreed WOODSTOCK (CP)--The 3,- { } Store gotiate a contract, claiming end immense intrest because |>00-member Woodstock, Inger-|only a minority of workers sup. | | their convictions were lived out, S0ll and District Labor Council|port the union. Stanley Clair of Windsor, On-| 2,000,000 VISITORS Mrs, Mary Norris of Toron- to shows delight and surprise as she is informed that she is the 2,000,000th visitor to click 'through the turnstiles at the | Canadian National Exhibition | this year. She entered the Duf- ferin Gate at 12:32 p.m., Wed- nesday. Mrs, Norris, wife of a Toronto doctor, was born in Australia and came to Canada in 1954. --(CP Wirephoto) DAY SCHOOL |They deeply influenced millions|@sred Wednesday to boycott a) 5S! | who saw and heard them in\Clothing store picketed by Local|tario union label director for| and Chile, |273 of the Amalgamated Cloth-|the ACWA, said Tuesday J. S.}| Led By Brilliant Scholar COURSES: --Stenographer --Accountant's --Clerk-typist --Secretary IRN tapas Babs By CHAS. S. ESPINET Editor - Director of The Publishing Company (Trimi- dad Guardian, Sunday Guar- dian and Evening News), Mr. Espinet is an outstanding au- thority on West Indian affairs. A visiting American journal- ist of international reputation once pointed out to me that the West Indies, with a popu- laion of three million, had a very high intellectual calibre of leadership unequalled in any similar area in the world He was referring then to three outstanding West Indian lead- ers, Sir Grantley Adams, the then Prime Minister of the de- funct Federation of the West Indies; Mr: Norman Manley, QC, the then Premier of Jamai- ca, and Dr. Eric Williams, the Prime Minister may be consitutional or inier-|constitutions) and the West|Prime Min: jnational obstacles to a Carib-| Indies Federation (he disagreed|by a once-close associate as be- bean economic union. But in an|with proposals for a weak cen-|ing "as British as Nehru". This} figure at the in his career have been Oxford lbility Dr. Williams clearly|namic .political exhilarated I was hopes to secure European met-jcrest of his powers, his stormy ("awed but Brazil, Peru, Bolivi ter was TibeG|" aaat eh ster. was describe They showed a men of all classes and races, a ew way for|ing Workers of America (CLC),|Herse, owner of the store, re-| : hs : a) |positive answer » rey-|Herse's of jarea not noted for political sta-|tral government). Clearly a dy-jis certainly so. The key points |p on? er to bloody rev speaking of D as ae ha s genes nea sal work done by Canadian Indians/ Ville company with which the ropolitan backing on the ground|temperament has kept Trinidad for seven years to be part, how- taking part in the campaign of|union is trying to get a con.|settle their Assistant The union began picketing|fused a union requst.to boy-} | Ruck 4 Woodstock 'Tues-|cott the company until it signed | I OR |day because the store refusd|a contract. aint ten el the | to cancel orders from a Belle-, Said Mr. Herse: "Tf told them that they should dispute secretarial subject separately. FALL CLASSES SUBJECTS: Toke any of our 29. business or |Caribbean designate of} | that regional economic develop- }ment would thwart political ex- \tremism of all types. Both he and the Surinam Premier ex- pressed common interest in |maintaining and _ promoting democracy. They denounced extremism of both the Left and the Right. Thus the Caribbean, once the cockpit of European rivalry, |would move closer together as {Europe herself is doing. The | joint Trinidad - Surinam state- ment issued this month de- clared: "The separation of the countries was the jessence of dependence. The in- | Trinidad and Tobago whic hj tegration of the Caribbean coun- ndent August 31,|tties is the essence of hecome independen . pros Bale The hand is clearly jthat of historian Williams. All three are Oxford Univer- sity graduates. Norman Man- inde- ley, 69, won a Rhodes scholar-| {RON DETERMINATION ship and went on to become one of the leading lawyers in the) tough pi British Caribbean. before turn-| average ing to politics; Adams, .a Barbados scholarship winner too turned to law but on his return to his Barbados homeland made a career of leadership among Barbados workers and organized the Bar- bados Labor Party which he led successfully for over a score of years becoming the first Prem- ier of Barbados and the first and only Prime Minister of the West Indies. Sit Grantley, 64 years old, has now retired from active politics while Man- ley was defeated by his cousin, Sir Alexander Bustamente, lead- er of the Jamaica Labor Party, and is now the leader of the opposition People's National Party in a newly independent Jamaica. The last of the trinity still in the saddle, the youngest, is 50- year-old Eric Williams, a Trin- idad island scholarship winner, who took his doctorate in Philo- sophy with fir$t-class honors at} 4 colonial society. It was many| Oxford University on the basis of a controversial thesis now published under the title "Capitalism and Slavery", which upset all previous think-| University, Washington. A spe-| Wiliams is. consistent in his|duction, Tolerance'. But the di- the] ¢ial job created at his alma|@conomic determinism, from his|dactic politician is also pre- ing on the question of emancipation Aged 50, physically short but he was an above- soccer and cricket Sir Grantley|player at Oxford -- the Prime | Minister of Trinidad and Toba- go has a reputation for iron | determination, and a razor wit jsince his student 'days, His |Ph.D. thesis, "Capitalism and " Slavery", which made the emancipation of slaves a mat- ter of sheer economics instead of humanitarian feelings, was a direct challenge to prevailing | sentiments as' well as academic /authority. The story goes that Beit Professor of Colonial His- tory, R. Copeland, shook the Trinidad student's hand, con- gratulating him ruefully for having spent long months of research "to make me look like }a fool." As the letier from his civil servant father on his choice of istudies suggests--Dr. Williams |prizes the letter -- the future | Prime Minister of his country | tilted with equal determination against the prevailing values of l years before he returned home. {After Oxford he became Asso- fl ciate Professor of Social and} |Political Science at Howard | polities 'in a perpetua! stew. ever small, of noble and inspir-| Yet the periods of calm were|ing traditions which have no! |equally remarkable. The equal anywhere in the world'), |Chaguaramas campaign was fol-|the Caribbean Commission and lowed by a political honeymoon his stay in the United States. with the Americans -- "the Certainly his battle for social spirit of Tobago" -- when a new change has been conditioned by bases treaty was accompanied| first hand experiences of Ameri- by promises of U.S. aid. When|¢@0 Jim Crow (and a subtler " . version of racial prejudice in Britain). Yet just as he has| learned to react warmly to the : more aamirable features of the : British heritage, he has a high respect for the go-getting Ameri. 'cans. His ideas for education : ; ; borrow heavily from American f pragmatism. In fact he was ; : ; 2 once called a negro John Dewey. * The Commission which he publicly denounced as useless to ; 4 Trinidad and Tobago and which * = moved iis headquarters from q Port - of - Spain to San Juan, * Puerto Rico, after he came to} * power, provided not only the! 4 dynamic for his political career. | | This metropolitan organization, | ; Now re-formed in the light of the an MRA task force throughout | tract. South America. They included! Chief Walking Buffalo of the Charles E. Carson, secretary- treasurer of the labor council Woodstock carrying | themselvs and _ not me." Mr, Carson said 20 union lo- \Indians of Alberta and Chief|said Hersee's is one of four|cals affiliated with the labor) |David Crowchild of the Sarces.|stores in council will be asked not to Gordon Crowchild, son of the | goods made by Deacon Sports.|cross the ACWA picket line. chief, said here Wednesday: "Moral Re-Armament gives us the world." wear Limited of Belleville. ACWA officials said the union Mr. Clair said the Belleville company pays wages 25-per-| Canadian Indians an answer to|has been certified by the On-|cent lower than union scale) bitterness and hatred. It is put-|tario Labor Relations Board for|and is the only major sports-| ting us on the warpath to unite|Deacon's 70-odd employees but|wear manufacturer not under the company has refused to ne-' union contract. STARTING SEPT. 4th, 1962 Please phone or write for FREE cotalogue about our day school or evening classes. THE CANADIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (Not. Affiliated with any other School er College) 52% SIMCOE ST. NORTH PHONE 728-7081 | hew constitutional status of the) Caribbean countries, engendered| 'in Dr. Williams a lasting pan-| Caribbean viewpoint, under.| standing and interest, Among| ee 5 - ___, his many writings he found time} Beanies wommee™ to deal knowledgeably with| DR. ERIC WILLIAMS Caribbean poetry. Undoubtedly] he has made several enemies, | ithe American aid was dis- ~ as also has mA Petr, lappointingly slow in coming the| jor his Caribbean Commission| honeymoon was threatened, but|%YS, including Alliance for Pro-| seems to be on the way to re-|STess Chief Ted Moscoso, whom} conciliation once more. Secre.|he invited to Trinidad soon after; ltary of State for the Colonies|Chieving political power to ad- /Reginald Maudling was praised|ViS¢ 0n a development program. from the same Woodford Square PENSIONS RELAXED |bandstand where the Colonial! wijtiams has begun to prepare Office and all its works had|the Trinidad public for economic jbeen damned over constitutional] shocks to the oil and sugar in-| issues. Dr. Williams electrified) qustries resulting from Britain's| |both the Colonial Office and the! proposed entry into the Euro-| Vosgaaa n ' < cure |Trinidad public, however, afler/nean Common Market. It is the the London independence con-|wider vision of Caribbean unity} ference when he declared that| that he entrancingly holds be the territory should forget about! fore the eyes of his countrymen British help. as the high road to progress. | Despite the ups and downs in|He has given the new nation the! the political thermometer; Dr.;watch words, "Discipline, Pro- mater, Queen's Royal College,|Ph.D. thesis to present cam-|pared to make independence from which he won an Open|Paign for a Caribbean common real to the little man by launch- ; Scholarship in 1931, was not eg eine br an hag arage the om) a --_ Ee cence De- ai . ae 4,ed by him; someone else be-/Proposed Constitution for an in-/ velopment 'und to- which the pd lan Baggins My ta-| came History Master. But injerneee West Indies Federa;major private firms have ther wrote me while I was in| Washington he came into touch] tion tip hav ing been a pledged large sums. Garde he seit "Ane he with the Caribbean Commission. taunc 3 advocate of the union) In the interest of national told me: "You B-- fool, why He became a consultant. Later|("Federate | or Barbados/unity he has taken the initiative are you studying politics? Get|/he, became a full-time research will perish!") he moved on eco-|to relax political tensions by B you si Ten Get >. ey ¢.ichief of the organization. nomic grounds, For similar rea-/offering closer -- co-operation out of politics, if you want to lsons he spurred the rump Fed-|with the Oppositi i come back to Trinidad and get But he has long been _prod- anit i fund Ma ig pposition Democratic a job." ding his countrymen forward. aon hae cat dag vonagal seces- Labor Party led by. Dr. Rud- He paused and, savoring the He lampooned the "crude voca-|>)' nvite e remaining|runath Capildeo, a Britishedu- onal sentiments" of West islands to discuss unitary ties|cated lawyer, mathematici irony, the crowd roared in re-|Onal se pie Pubic dor flock-| With Trinidad and Tobago. This|and physicist. wil FATHER'S ADVICE The little man with = dar 'Indians in ply. Then the punch line: "Look where I am today! Can anyone put me out of politics?" The answer, of course, is that Dr. Eric Williams, brilliant Oxford ing abroad to study medicine, dentistry or law almost exclu- sively, while neglecting profes- sions which would provide "'the | indispendable basis for a.nation- was not egoism, as his critics Thus many people are not ex- charged, but economic reason-|pecting independence to be a jing. Williams questioned the/bed of roses. Teacher Williams |top-heavy administrations in the| has long been preparing the pub. jisland when they were all pov-|lic for the event. "We thoroughly enjoy and appreciate all the benefits we have gained through using Natural Gas in our home" says Mr. Fs ge ge Ret sat alistic structure." He labelled|¢tty-stricken or under severe| But however controversial he j a ithe economy of the islands as|°¢Onomic pressures. A unitary)may have been in the past and population of 829,700 to indepen-| THY were. producing too much|Ertater economic viability, has instilled an outsized confi. dence within the British Com-|SU84": he said, just as they had! Another consistent feature has dence in this small territory in monwealth on August 31, will|® surfeit of lawyers, dentists|been his personal impression on) his ability to make it great. Dr. be tip to his hearing-aid tn poli-|2% doctors. others. From the Oxford author-| illiams has convinced his fol-| up : See ities to Prime Minister Macmil-/!owers that not only do they! tics, for as many years as any-/INTEGRITY BY-WORD | lan ('Trinidad is the Athens of have much to learn from the! one would care to Imagine. When his contract with thel the West Indies") his intellectual|World but they also have their! His People's National Move-|Caribbean Commission as Dep-\calibre has naver failed.to win OWN Contribution to make. He is ment became more strongly en-|uty Chairman of its Research)aqmiration thouch sometimes Perhaps the youngest Prime renched in 1961. Dr. Williams;Council was not renewed in 1955) grudging. His integrity as a poli- Minister in the Region He is himself has set about to change |he had his chance to implement)iipan isa hy-word. although he|also the most determined Both not only Trinidad and Tobago, | the reforms he had persistently|-as not beer, as inflexible as he are in his favor. ; but the historical pattern of the|urged upon the planners and) .ometimes makes it appear Caribbean as well, by seeking] politicians. He announced a pub-! Dr. Williams has already an economic union of British|lic meeting in Woodford made it plain that he is pro- French, Dutch and .American|Square, Port-of-Spain -- now| Western where territories. "The University" to P.N.M. fol-\cgncermed. Yei he is no lees in-|tiv i eae Already he has exchanged)lowers, that he would not ac-|torested in the nealralistic mac ne svarealie took Cases yee state visits with Surina m|cept job offers outside Trinidad,| (Ghana, Indiay for cn' oral :ea-|val vessels at the B itigh na: (Dutch Guiana). Mindful of the|that he was going :o "let down)sons, India and Ghana have|jymbia Mariti e British Co- ig . lowe Gneket Hk bere'! A phBI oy : 've|lumbia Maritimé Museum here help the European. Economic|™ rig I been approacaed endow in-'says curator Col. J. W. D Community could give in unit-/nomenally successful political) stitutes for the study of Indian mons hoot » By: ing the Caribbean, he paid cor-|Career began from. that!and African calfure. at the Trin 2 dial visits to France anc moment. Trinidad end Tobago/idad branch of the West Indies Germany this year j-,have not been the same s nce./ University. Dr. Williams. crit MONTREAL (CP)--Fourteen! liams specially asked French) At one time or another Dr./cized pro Communist Dr, Cheddi| African airlines now are mem-| West. Indian politicians to Port-|Williams has battled the United Jagan, the Premier of British bers of. the. International Air| of-Spain for the independence States Government (he wanted}Guiana, for his leftist leanings,| Transport Association. Europe) it 'to release the Chaguaramas/but he has inv ted Jagan to dis- has 27 member airlines, North| out to Puerto Rico. As he tedinaval site for the West cuss closer trading America 18, Latin America and! in a joint statement after. hisjIndies Federal Capital), the Despite his intense national-/Asia 15 each, and Australia| PILFER SOUVENIRS VICTORIA (CP) -- Former 'he cold war isicrew members and their rela- AFRICAN AIRLINES celebrations. Feelers have ¢ station ties Surinam visit this monh, here'Colonial Office (for improvediism, the Trinidad and Tobago four \ * Tevruchte. 'Natural Gas heating has proven to be most economical --- and -- clean! We have yet to run out of hot water with our Natural Ges hot water heoter. 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