100 years from 1837
Emancipation (1834) brought great fear to the ruling class. There was great worry as to whether the black population would accommodate to the system of free labour that was to be introduced. The general social system in Trinidad and Tobago was in some respects identical with the system then obtaining in the United Kingdom.
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Grapes of Wrath - Conditions of the Working Class
The early 1930s saw the steady deterioration of working class living conditions. The two main sectors of the agricultural economy -sugar and cocoa- had remained depressed since the drop in world prices in the early 1920s. The post-war depression and the mechanisation of the production process had reduced the number of workers employed. The great depression also led to the lowering of wages and rising costs and reduction in the working hours.
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The Labour Strikes of June 1937
The Strike of oil workers was originally planed for June 22, but intelligence was received that the oil companies, the government and the police were concerting measures to frustrate it, as such the strike was brought forward to June 18th.
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