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The “Labourers March” on Sauteurs (January 11, 1848) was the dramatic highpoint of an industrial’ action initiated on December 22,1847, arguably the dawn of collective political life in post-emancipation Grenada. Coming just a decade following the abolition of chattel slavery, the Sauteurs protest pitted ex-slaves against the former masters.
Labour Day in Grenada must remember the courage of the St Patrick’s labourers, the Country’s proto-trade unionists.
Trinidad’s 1919-20 Stevedore’s Strike enlarged the political and ideological imagination of the “dock workers”.
This historic action produced several songs , including :
The English say we can live on two dollars
The English say we can live on two dollars
But listen to what we say,
Listen , boys, listen
Two dollars cyah maintain our family
Down with the flag, everybody, down with the flag
Hear what we say, and
Cheer, boys, cheer 