Informe de Machado y la discusión posterior del informe 1929 11 00 authorities would continue the deportation in masses of the suspected workers; deportations carried thru at night when the suspects would be arrested and immediately brought on board a sailing ship before anybody could do anything in their favour, practically kidnapping them to be murdered in Venezuela.
We discussed at length, the general situation and interpreting he unanimous hatred of the Curaçao, Venezuelan and Dominican workers against the Military Colonial Government, the desire that they all had of avenging the death of their beloved leader, old Hilario Montenegro, and the resolution that they have of crushing the criminal dictatorship of General Gomez in Venezuela as an agency of imperialis m, together with the nec essity of immediately organizing their self defence against unjustified persecutions, de portations to Venezuela, where a certain death awaits the rioti ng of this oppression, the Curaçao Local of the PPRV. decided to lead a revolt, take the arms and ammunition and land in Venezuela and take the leadership of the revolutionary movement against the Gomez Government, tool of imperialism.
The workers of Curaçao are divided into three categories; The Negroes natives from Curaçao and Jamaica, the Venezuelan and Dominican workers; and the white workers (from Holland, Germany, etc. who form the labour aristocracy.
It is to be noted that when the Venezuelan workers began to be broug ht in large quantities to Curacao, the native workers resented this penetration because these workers from Venezuela were brought over as strike breakers and at the time when new piers were being built, a riot between native and Venezuelan workers took place with disastrous re sults for the natives as they were not armed while the newly arrived workers had a few revolvers. It is since these happenings that the Government of Curaçao was transferred into MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
The General Union of Workers of Curaçao, tried to unify all the three categories, and found it easy to unite the first two classes. ice. the natives and Jamaicans with the Venezuelan and Domin ican workers. This was due amongst other reasons, to the fact that the native workers generally belong to Burial Societies of mutual he lp, to which we sent delegates to expose our aims and activities, and inviting their members to join us for our common struggle.
The next step was to link these workers with the white ones belonging to that labour aristocracy. It was quite a difficult task because of the usual race prejudices, better living standards, and our lack of white organizers