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It is past overdue the recording of our history be honest

Mar 04, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Reference is made to Mr. Mohamed Khan’s letter, “Dr Jagan was a working-class intellectual and agitator”, published in SN, March 1, 2010.
Dr. Jagan’s contributions to Guyana’s development and underdevelopment must be duly recorded. Not overstated or understated. It is past overdue the recording of our history be honest. The media can help in this regard.
While Mr. Khan is entitled to his own opinion, he is not entitled to his own facts. It is factually incorrect to say that, “The awesome one-man crusade for the colony’s under-privileged workers was launched by Dr Cheddi Jagan during his initial legislative tenure, 1947-1953, against both the colonial administration and big business.”
In 1905, a young man named, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow launched, “the awesome one-man crusade for the colony’s under-privileged workers.”
That was 42 years before Dr. Jagan went to the legislature. In fact, Dr. Jagan was not even born! Critchlow, also, in 1947 won a seat in the legislature, defeating Mrs. Frances Stafford, and took his working class fight to the legislature against the “colonial administration and big business.”
So he was Dr. Jagan’s co-legislators, thereby eliminating the notion of Dr. Jagan being the first working-class legislature. Lest it be forgotten it was Critchlow who launched the fight for universal adult suffrage which the Jagans, Burnham, et al, subsequently adopted.
It becomes very clear from these irrefutable historical facts, that while Dr. Jagan played a role in agitating for the working class and standing up to the colonial administration and big business, by no stretch of the imagination was he the one who “launched the awesome one-man crusade for the colony’s under-privileged workers during his initial legislative tenure, 1947-1953.”
M. A. Bacchus

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