Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
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This chapter focuses on Norman Manley, president of the Jamaica Welfare League, an organization of middle-class people founded in the 1930s to promote social and civic reforms in the island. Manley had eschewed any interest in electoral politics, preferring to concentrate on his very active and successful professional career. In 1937, he rejected an invitation to stand as a candidate for a seat on the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. As he told his colleague O. T. Fairclough, “The problems of Jamaica, my dear Fairclough, are social and economic, not political.” The labor rebellion and his role in helping to resolve it sensitized him to the need to be more actively engaged in the political life of the country. As Manley admitted in 1942, “I had no previous political experience but my work for labour in the 1938 troubles convinced me of the need for organized political action devoted to the interest of the working class and small peasant.”
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