#OtD 6 Mar 1964 Kowsilla, a striking sugarcane worker was killed in Guyana by a scab, and others badly injured.

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#OtD 6 Mar 1964 Kowsilla, a striking sugarcane worker was killed in Guyana by a scab, and others badly injured. The British Tate sugar company exploited racial divisions by using African scabs to try to break a national strike of mostly Asian workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10643/kowsilla-killed-by-scab