Summaries
This is a
listing of articles written by Dr. Jagan that are housed at the
Cheddi Jagan Research Centre in Georgetown, Guyana. Some of these
articles can be found on this website. More summaries will be added
in the near future.
1942-1960
1961-1963
1964
1942-1960
(Date = year/month/day)
id#
0001
title
Letter to Dr. Orrin Dummett
year written 1942/09/04
place delivered Illinois,
USA
medium
letter
summary
Dr. Jagan's first know political
writing. Through a personal letter to a friend written in 1942, it
shows Cheddi Jagan during his student years in Chicago,
already imbued with progressive and forward- looking ideas. It also
showed his interest in a wide
range of subjects. In this letter he stood on the side of radical
equality; opposed war but supported
liberation; commented on the Indian
people's struggle under Gandhi and
the labour struggles in Jamaica. Most
interestingly, Cheddi Jagan was already
considering what should be done;
practical steps that could be taken in the
face of problems/issues which he
identified therein.
id#
0002
title
The Right to Vote
year written
1944/08/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Labour Advocate"
summary
Dr. Jagan talks about the fact
that the people of British Guiana
do not have the right to vote unless they meet the
property qualifications, in the form of
landed property, land tenure-rent or income. He goes on to state
that true democracy depends on a
broader universal suffrage.
id#
0003
title
The Need for Consumers' Cooperatives (Contd)
year written
1954/06/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan explains that people
should organise into consumer
cooperatives to purchase supplies, to advertise
and to bargain for better wages and
living conditions.
id#
0004
title
The Cooperative Way
year written 1945/12
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan explains that the
philosophy of greed and
individualism must be replaced by cooperation for mutual
gain; that the wealth of society must be
justly and adequately distributed.
For British Guiana the call for independence and a well planned
industrial economy. Workers must
also organize themselves in consumers
cooperatives, which must be seen as only
a palliative and a transition period to independence. He states that
cooperative credit-banks or unions
can easily be organized, and if it
can be achieved in war time, why not in
peace time?
id#
0005
title
Wanted a Minimum Wage
year written 1946/06/30
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Labour Advocate"
summary
Dr. Jagan compares the standard of
living in British Guiana and the difference in minimum wage between
British Guiana and the USA. He
urges workers and wage earners to
press their representatives in the Legislative Council to
call for a minimum wage law.
id#
0006
title
Letter
to Editor Daily Chronicle
year written 1946/07/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Daily Chronicle"
summary
Dr. Jagan exposes the viewpoint
that consumerism will stimulate
the workers to work longer hours. He goes on to
explain the real earning power of workers
and ends by saying that only a
socialist control of the sugar industry will increase the standard
of living of the sugar workers.
id#
0007
title
In Defence of Working Class
year written 1946/07/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Guiana Graphic"
summary
Dr. Jagan replies to an article in
the "Daily Chronicle" in which he
is made out to be a "Champion of a particular race
in the colony" - a move to divide
along racial lines. He explains
that his beliefs are in working class unity, not
along race but along class differences.
id#
0008
title
Reply to article
in Chronicle
year written 1946/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
handwritten notes
summary
Cheddi Jagan speaks on using money
from British Guiana's lottery to build sidewalks, instead of on
public-spiritless and charity.
id#
0009
title
Letter to Editor Daily Chronicle
year written 1946/08/15
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Daily Chronicle"
summary
Dr. Jagan replies to an article
and agrees with the writer on the
point that salaries of trained personnel from overseas
puts a strain on British Guiana.
id#
0010
title
Capitalistic Power and Rehabilitation
year written 1946/08/18
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "New Outlook"
summary
Dr. Jagan writes about the
situation in there USA in the post
war years.
id#
0011
title
The
Recall
year written 1946/09/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan writes of the need for
the "Recall" system to be incorporated into the British Guiana
constitution, whereby an elected
official can be recalled if he does not
fulfil his obligations.
id#
0012
title
The Road to Serfdom
year written 1947/07/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan speaks out in support of
strike action by the workers, and
explains the reasons for these strikes.
id#
0013
title
Notice in Legislative Council
year written 948/05/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
Cheddi Jagan's unofficial notices
given in the Legislative Council
on setting up a Committee to deal with problems n the sugar industry
in British Guiana, and how to raise
the wages of the sugar workers.
id#
0014
title
Memorandum on the Sugar Industry of British Guiana
(Venn Com)
year written 1948/08/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
This paper was presented to the
Venn Commission in 1948. Dr. Jagan emphasizes the importance of the
Sugar Industry to the economy and
as a major employer. He addressed
comprehensively all aspects of the industry, including the living,
working and social conditions of sugar workers. Low wages, job and
tenure of land (housing) insecurity
and the drain of profits – going abroad.
A powerful representation to the Venn Commission by Dr. Jagan – the
voice of the exploited and downtrodden.
id#
0015
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1948/12/16
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0016
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1948/12/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0017
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written
1949/02/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0018
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/02/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0019
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/02/04
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0020
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/02/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0021
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/03/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0022
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/03/04
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0023
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/03/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0024
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0025
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0026
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0027
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/05
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0028
title
Trespass Notice
- May 20, 1949
year written 1949/05/20
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Court notice
summary
Trespass Notice given to Dr. Jagan
by Plantation Vesailles and Schoon Ord Limited for addressing
workers on their estates.
id#
0029
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/27
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0030
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/27
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0031
title
Letter to
Labour Research Board
year written 1949/05/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
letter
summary
Dr. Jagan, at the time a Member of
the Legislative Council and a
trade unionist writes the Labour Research Board
(England) to express his concern over
Trespass Notices served on him and
others and queried whether it is normal
for a Trade Union Leader and Legislative
Council Member (MP) to be so
subjected.
id#
0032
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/06/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0033
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/06/24
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0034
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0035
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0036
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/20
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0037
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0038
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0039
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0040
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/09
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0041
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/14
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
