The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-12
Marcus Garvey
To Quit Jamaica
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CONTINUED from rage l.
and Publishing company, publishers
of the Blackman, which is the of
fetal mouthpiece in Jamaica of the
Universal Negro Improvement as
sociation august, 1920 of the
world.
Sunday mornings meeting of the
Industrial and Commercial Exchange
Ga subsidiary of the U. N. /. A.
here) was abruptly terminated when
Garvey demonstrated his resentment
to certain remarks of members by
suddenly taking up his hat and leav-
ing the building.
Members of the exchange who
were present at this meeting say
that Garvey was blamed for poor
business and that a request was made
that he turn over the organization
into the hands of persons who would
do more work than. talking, as he
had been unproductively doing since
he came here.
One member declared that several
influential men in the community
who had been actively interested in
the movement, had withdrawn as a
result of Garvey's dabbling in poll
tics and making enemies of those
who would otherwise be able to fur
Their the cause through their con-
nection with the government.
One of these persons is Hon. d. 7.
Whit, who last year defeated Gar
vey's candidate in an election con-
test for the seat of the parish of
st. Ann, in the Legislative Council.
In an interview with the A. N. P.
correspondent Monday, Garvey gave
an account of the circumstances
which, he said, had forced him to
decide to withdraw. In the first
place, he said, the success of the
convention which he called at Edel-
veis Park in 1929 was undermined
by a reactionary element from New
York, to which E. B. Knox, recently
committed to prison in New York,
who was at that time elected first
assistant president general, was Sc
reilly connected.
Others who comprised this selfish
md rebellious faction, he said, were
Delegates Craigen and Smith from
Detroit. After the close of the con-
yention, the effect of the propagan-
la of Knox and his coterie was re-
lected in persistent requests that
he headquarters of the association
be removed from Jamaica to the
United States.
Knox is Beaten
His refusal to allow this transfer,
ne continued, resulted in fight be-
tween himself and Knox for the con-
;rol of the Universal Negro Improve
ment association, and of the Negro
World, the official mouthpiece of
the organization in the States. Knox
and his gang were eventually de-
feated, but there resulted democrat
ization of sentiment, which, for a
time, hampered the progress of the
organization in America and the
West Indies.
More recent events opened up ave-
nues for the revival of the spirit of
he movement, notably the overturn-
ed judgments in the celebrated
Marks VS.. U. NJ |. A. legal battles in
the courts here and the activity of
Mrs. de Mena, international organi-
ger in eliminating from the rank and
file of the association in the U. S.,
persons hostile to Garvey control.
On the whole, Garvey said gross
moral insensibility on the part of
many persons elected to office in the
U. N. |. A. has been responsible for
whatever setbacks the movement has
encountered since its inception. He
Mr.. Garvey) has always labored in
the cause with the sole objective OF
the total emancipation of the Negro
and the eventual redemption of Afri
ca, the cradle of the Negro, with
the desire to make it the seat of AT.
rican nationality and imperialism.