The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-10-11
European Policy
In Africa
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administrations, are forced to follow
the four main systems of labor re-
cruiting mentioned by ]. H. Harris,
in AFRICA; SLAVE OR FREE! q
4 Four Methods
"In the African continent" says
Mr.. Harris, there are four main sys-
TENS Of labor, each of which has been
productive of great loss of life and
still greater loss of liberty and hap
oiness:
a"(a) Domestic slavery.
"(b) Compulsory Labor for ad-
ministrative purposes.
"(c) Forced labor for private
profit (modern slavery,
"(d) Fraudulent Contract Labor
(modern slavery).
,Atp Demand Upon Chiefs
The two methods to secure this la
Dor in Africa are:
"(a) Direct demands made upon
the chiefs, either with or without
the aid of the administration.
."tbl By dispossessing the native
of leaving them with nothing but
their. land and virgin produce, there
by.
'.In every colony where it has been
pFactised it has led 10 economic dis
aster and atrocious Entertainment OF
the natives. followed by widespread
suffering, disease, ana rapid depopu-
| lations."
Now NJ. Glide, in his two books,
shows that France, through the max
| ing effective use of methods A
1 and r In, racruitinur hor la hor for tha
French concessionaire companies, IS
production OF rubber IN the Congo,
which has resulted IN the effects
enumerated by MI Harris.
| Natives Rebel
On page 81 of the VOYAGE Az
CONGO, eide writes: "On the 2lst
Of October last. sergeant femba was
sent, by the administrator at Boda,
to Bodembere to carry out this local
administrator orders against the IN
habitants Of this village (which is
between Boda and N,Geto). The in
habtants had refused to comply with
the Administrators order to change
their resting-place to. the Carnot
Route, not wishing. to leave their
crops. moreover, they argued that
| the people now located on the Carnot
Route are Bayas, while we are Bofis.
4 Sergeant femba then left Boda with
three guards. a
TINS little detachment was accom-
panied by Bacue, the captain and
two other men under his command
| On the way Sergeant iemba requisi-
toned two or three men in every
village passed through, and after
claiming them led them away. Up
on reaching Bodembere they proceed
ed to carry out their orders.
Tied To Trees
Twelve men were tied up to tree,
while Cobele, the village chief, fled,
Sergeant femba and the guard Bon.
10 fired on the twelve men and killed
them. After this there was gener-
al massacreing OF The women, whom
femba struck down with his ma
chete. Ihis slaughter was followed
by the seizing OF about 1--we children,
whom Yemba shut up IN hut, and
10 which he set fire. Samba MOO
TO tells us that there were about
thirty-two victims in all. !"
This Ia French Congo
The above is a typical instance of
/ ~FP~iAS w ~ NNi.eN. .ssseA "
when they refuse to comply with the
orders of the local administration.
These things taking place in the
French Congo, mind you. not the Bel
gan, although the Belgians are gull
ty Of similar cruelties.
Whipped
Here is another that eide men
toned in the same volume "At Bam-
bio, on the 9Th of September, ten
rubber gatherers of the Goundi gang,
working for the Forestry Company
for failure to bring in rubber during
the preceding month"; but this month
they had brought in double their
amount, from 40 to so kilograms)-
were punished BY being forced to
march around the local office bnild-
ing, with heavy beams of wood on
their shoulders, in burning sun. II
they fall the guards would get them
up with blows from heavy whip OF
rhinocerous hide. iH
Why Natives Balk
These are merely a few of the
many similar cruelties mentioned by