RR Conference
The Society for the Study of Labour History
Dear Daniel
Thanks for your patience
We have decided to put the event back to Friday 21st April as we have discovered that on 24th April it is the 85th Anniversary of the successful submission of the Petition presented by Robert Rumble and the Tenants Group to the Jamaican Government
So here is an outline of the event: The 85th Anniversary of Robert Rumble and the PMILSA Petition Submission to the Governor of Jamaica
This event recognises the almost overlooked 85th Anniversary of the date when Robert Rumble and the 'Poor Man’s Improvement and Land Settlement Association’ presented their Petition to the Governor demanding a minimum wage for agricultural workers and peasants and an end to exploitation by landlords stating that a century after their forebears were released from slavery they were still in a state of economic slavery to the landowners.
This event will bring forward the research of the Pennants Local History Group along with academics aware of this important event - which caused the Welsh plantation owning family to sell to a Jamaican who then sold it to the Jamaican Government, who then arranged to sell land packages to local people.
Presenters / Speakers will include:
Members of the Pennants CDC Local History Research Group
Community Researchers from the Jamaica Wales Alliance
Professor Anthony Bogues - Brown University
Jose Andres Fernandes Montez de Oca - University of Costa Rica
Bernard Jankee - Jamaica Memory Bank
Henry George Foundation representative
Elen Simpson - University of Bangor Archives
with a welcome by the Custos of Clarendon
As yet our contacts at the University of the West Indies have not responded
The funding applied for is to cover the costs of the Pennants CDC Local History Research Group who require recompense for pulling together this research and staging this amazing event - it is history that few others have researched. Prof Anthony Bogues happened to be working for a newspaper as a young man and interviewed Robert Rumble. He feels it is an essential area for further study.
The Pennants CDC will claim the funding needed to support the event through Learning Links International CIC.
We have managed to get a good deal of interest in this and it will be recorded, as part of the LLI Black History Conversations series and will be the #101 session since we started in 2020.
Learning Links International, the Jamaica Wales Alliance and the Pennants Community Development Committee are running a conference in April as it is the 85th Anniversary of the presentation of the Petition by the ‘Poor Man's Improvement and Land Settlement Association’ to the Jamaican Governor from Pennants in Jamaica - the documents we have state that:
'All correspondence between the Association and the British Parliament was done through British based Henry George Foundation and not through any Colonial Government agencies as might be expected. Among the members of the Foundation were several active British Parliamentarians.'
This was 1938 - we have been in touch with you before, but it would be great if you could find something out about this.
The people in Pennants would like the Henry George Foundation to be represented at the event - so they can thank you.
This is the typed up version of the original cyclostyled document treasured by the local community - which names and recognises the importance of the support given by the Henry George Foundation
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Learning Links International, the Jamaica Wales Alliance and the Pennants Community Development Committee are running a conference in April as it is the 85th Anniversary of the presentation of the Petition by the ‘Poor Man's Improvement and Land Settlement Association’ to the Jamaican Governor from Pennants in Jamaica - the documents we have state that:
'All correspondence between the Association and the British Parliament was done through British based Henry George Foundation and not through any Colonial Government agencies as might be expected. Among the members of the Foundation were several active British Parliamentarians.'
This was 1938 - we have been in touch with you before, but it would be great if you could find something out about this.
The people in Pennants would like the Henry George Foundation to be represented at the event - so they can thank you.
This is the typed up version of the original cyclostyled document treasured by the local community - which names and recognises the importance of the support given by the Henry George Foundation