Recently, June 19th, was Labour Day here in Trinidad.
T&T’s Labour Day became a public holiday in 1973.
June 19th is the anniversary of the 1937 Butler labour riots.
This year, the local Guardian newspaper pincluded an insert which was the actual newspapers of the days around that time in 1937.
Besides the local Trini news and obviously articles focused on the Butler Riots, it included international references to Hitler in the buildup to WWII....
and included articles on Amelia Earhart who disappeared around July 2nd, 1937.
It made for some interesting local & international historical reading.
B.
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