The daily worker

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After a serious attack of malaria ana a period in the hospital,

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Dicharson walks to Gonaives, another town in Haiti, where he gets

a job in a store owned by a man named Lenoir.

By JACQUES DICHARSON.

PONAIVES is not a bad little town. It lies in a pit, formed by the

u surrounding mountains. When the sun reaches its zenith in the

afternoon you cannot walk on the street since the soil, which is quite

chalky, reflects the sun’s rays and blinds you.

There are plenty of prostitutes there poor broken down

things. At night you can see thorn as you walk up the water front, i

calling you in hoarse whispers. Pitiful objects victims of the

capitalist system.

Now and again a policeman will come to you try to recruit

you for some debauchery or he will ask you for a cigarette, a drink,

or sometimes even for money to get something to eat with.

I cannot remember having seen a Haitian of the poorer class that

was not on the verge of perpetual hunger an eternal attitude.

AND the peasants the poor lambs! I reflect having seen them

in Port au Prince, just after they had come out of the country, j

having sold the few rachitic goats that had been the fruit of six

months or even a year of hard work, passing a Syrian store on the

Rue Front-Fort. Those depraved dogs of storekeepers grab the

peasant as he passes on the street, ask him if he wants a glass of

rum or tafia. Then when he gets into the store, he is told that he

must buy something in order to get"it. As the majority of the Syrians j

are white, or appear to be, the peasant i 3 naturally bashful. The

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily worker. (1929). Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y., 1929-07-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020097/1929-07-08/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily worker, 1929-07-08.