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May 02, 2013 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News
May Day parade getting smaller. Less people putting on red and white fuh walk down de streets pun Labour Day. Dem boys remember de days when Labour Day was a big parade. People use to lef dem house and line de streets. De people who use to march use to lef dem home before bird wife wake.
Everybody use to end up at de National Park fuh hear Burnham. Cheddi use to go to de park too.
Nowadays people tekking de day as a holiday. Long time dem union hall use to have all de food and drinks and music. Burnham and Cheddi use to visit a few. Was a real workers’ day.
But it had to happen. From de time dem start fuh give workers de right to pay or not to pay union dues that was de end of de Labour Day parade. People didn’t belong to no union suh dem use to tek de opportunity fuh sleep late.
Imagine dem mek Donald talk to couple people wid a serious message. Hen See Hen didn’t even broadcast de man message when that was de norm. People who live far use to stay home and listen to dem speech pun radio.
Dem boys remember when dem name that road Mandela Avenue. Was a big march right round town fuh Labour Day. Mandela did just get loose out of jail. People walk wid pride. All dem Government and department join in.
People want to know when this thing get suh poor. Dem don’t want to blame Bharrat because he was a Moscow man and he know bout Labour Day and de workers anthem which in English got de words , “Oh arise ye starvelings from your slumber; O arise you prisoners of want.”
Well it got to be that dem union ain’t got money. GAWU and NAACIE got to do without de sugar money suh dem can’t buy de rum fuh de staff and besides, de sugar workers stop marching.
Anyhow, Labour Day come and gone and people want to know wheh de labour deh. Perhaps Guyana getting ready to bring in robots. At least dem gun march.
Talk half and watch how de workers disappearing.
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