The Waterbury Democrat

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ing to cross Massacre river and chop sugar

cane for wealthier Santo Domingo

planters for 20 cents a day and Santo

Domingo planters were eager to have

them. Then the price of sugar dropped

and production fell off. But already

thousands of Haitians were in Santo

Domingo, married, rearing families, resi

dents of as long as 20 years.

That was the seat of the trouble—that

and the blending of French and Negro

blood— and when hard times struck the

island, Santo Domingo grumbled about

the Haitians on the wrong side of Mas

sacre river and what to do with them.

Apparently the solution was found, if

peculiarly, for by night, according to sur

vivors, the Haitians were hauled from

their tiny homes and butchered with

machetes, butchered by the hundreds,

and the bodies left along the banks of

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When these afcts came out of the in

terior and reached the seaport, foreigners

looked at Haiti’s president Stenio Vincent

for warring retaliation. But instead he

placed the matter before the Permanent

Committee of Inter-American Concilia

tion, under the Gondra Treaty of 1923,

which guaranteed amiability between the

two nations.

The comimttee investigated and fixed

the blame. An accord was reached and

laid before the Congresses of both nations.

Both agreed to the proposal that Santo

Domingo pay the $750,000 indemnifica

tion. The Dominican government agreed

to continue investigations and gave the

affair full publicity. Both governments

agreed to prevent future like occurrences.

It was as simple as that. Even with a

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Waterbury Democrat. (1938). Waterbury, Conn., 1938-02-11. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014085/1938-02-11/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Waterbury Democrat, 1938-02-11.