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Description:: ENGLISH: 19th May 1955 issue 297 Weekly Comment newspaper The Indian demand for an enquiry follows closely upon the drawing up of the women's petition to the Queen on similar lines which has, regrettably , received so little support in certain influential quarters.
Date:: May 19, 1955
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Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: A district officer was called in one morning to try and deal with a sit-down strike in some cotton-grinding factory.He arrived and found the labourers squatting on the floor , refusing to work and refusing to explain to the owners why they were on strike.He advised the employees to appoint three delegates whom he would receive at a given time the next morning to examine the question of their grievances.Next morning the three chosen waited upon the District officer and when he opened the proceedings by asking them to state there grievances , he could not get them to talk , then one who appeared to be the leader suddenly exclaimed"we have no grievances; we were told that if we were members of a Trade Union we could strike. So we joined a Trade Union and went on strikes!"
Date:: May 12, 1955
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Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 295 of May 5, 1955 Government has seen fit to issue a document to civil servants here, to cover the event that they may find themselves wanted when the colony gets its freedom.A Settlers government would very soon take the Colony a few jumps forward such that more rather than less of all races would find themselves badly needed to keep up with the progress we would make.
Date:: May 5, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: 28th April 1955 issue 294 Weekly Comment newspaper The future , as being fraught with hazard the native under-developed and over-organised such that in Kenya the rule of law and order might break down through the excesses of its policies; witness the atrocious murder of two european boys on the outskirts of Nairobi, by one of two gangs hovering thereabout the authorities pretending the rebellion is on its legs.
Date:: April 28, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 292 of April 14, 1955 Mr.W.McLellan Wilson presented a memorandum explaining the situation of land occupation in the Kiambu area in 1900 when he first had personal knowledge of the district .He stated that in 1902 when he took up his present farm there were no Kikuyu nearer than three or four miles, and they were only the adventurous of the tribe.
Date:: April 14, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: 7th April 1955 issue 291 Weekly Comment newspaper A fair and impartial article upon a multi-racial school was a feature of contempolary.One assertion was, however both mystifying and disturbing , it was said that the average European in the colony is dead set against schools of a tri-racial character for" reasons not easily defined and essentially individualistic".
Date:: April 7, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 290 of March 31, 1955 The great deal of hypocritical talk being broadcast about the prosperous state of Kenya is difficult to avoid as the edifice of Kenya is becoming dangerously top heavy due to the overborrowing for a small country and expenditure continous to mount alarmingly.Most disturbing of all is the pressure being exercised from every quarter outside Africa to raise the standard of living of our millions to something like European level.We must not borrow anymore as it would be fatal for british Kenya , the budget will soon be upon us and will be scarcely be pleasant.
Date:: March 31, 1955
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Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 289 of March 24, 1955 White settlers in Kenya excited over the visit by General Sir Gerald Templer to finish off the mau mau war and ensure it never happens again however it is believed that the mau mau will fake "mass repentance" with the intention of fighting another day.
Date:: March 24, 1955
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Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 288 of March 17, 1955 Tom Mboya, the Secretary of the Kenya Federation of Registered Trade Unions, is a strong force and if the present insistence upon accelerating the pace towards multiracial government continues, we are likely to hear a lot more of Mboya in the near future and Mr. Humphrey Downes on behalf of the Department of Information told the country of the marvellous work being done in improving conditions in the Kikuyu Reserve, telling all tribes in East Africa that if they adopted a similar state of rebellion as Kikuyus have then they could expect to have similar good things.
Date:: March 17, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: Weekly Comment newspaper issue 287 of March 10, 1955 Threat to civil servants as they are prohibited from taking any part in the politics of Kenya and Mombasa strike alleged to be in line with the disbursements made to Civil Servants under the Lidbury Report coupled with the African cost of living
Date:: March 10, 1955
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

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