LabourStart - Martinique

This month in labour history


2-03-1948 Fusillade du Carbet. General strike at the Lajus plantation. The cane cutters request the application of the same wages and conditions as 1947. The owner refuses. A shooting disperses workers and onlookers. On the ground, 3 dead and 2 wounded. [more]

24-03-1961 In Lamentin, as a demonstration of farm workers on strike for better wages disperses, the colonial army fires a machine gun. 3 dead and 20 injured, all shot in the back. [more]