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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Employment of Jamaican Labourers on Railway in Ecuador: Encloses correspondence between...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/618/75
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This record is about the Employment of Jamaican Labourers on Railway in Ecuador: Encloses correspondence between... dating from 1901 Apr 09 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 137/618/75
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1901 Apr 09
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Employment of Jamaican Labourers on Railway in Ecuador: Encloses correspondence between Philip C Cork, Acting Colonial Secretary and Mr S S Wortley, Inspector of Labourers, regarding the condition and numbers of Jamaican labourers going to work on building railways in Ecuador; Precis of complaints by Jamaican Labourers against the company in charge of the building work including being beaten; Official report by Commissioner J V Leach on the condition of Jamaican Labourers including absconders being hunted by the Ecuadorian Army.
No 188, folios 588-663.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 14477/1901
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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