HE Caribbean Congress of Labour
has called on Caribbean governments involved in the serious economic crisis in the sugar industry to meet with trade unions and manufacturers for discussions. In a press statement Osmond Dyce, CCL Secretary-Treasurer, recalled that ithis had been suggested at a meeting held in Barbados by the CCL in October 1964, when it was agreed that these top-level discussions should take place no later than July 1965. Describing the position on the world market of sugar produced in the Caribbean countries, the CCL Secretary-Treasurer underlined that sugar workers’ wages in these countries are much lower than those paid in Australia, Great Britain, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Dyce pointed out that an Australian cane cutter earns about 15 pounds ten shillings (74 West Indian dollars) for a five-day forty-hour week, while a cane cutter