Robert Bradshaw
Robert Bradshaw is considered to be one of his nations first heroes. Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was born at St. Paul's Village, St. Kitts on the 16th September 1916. His parents were Mary Jane Francis and William Bradshaw. He attended the St. Paul's Primary School .
His first job was as an apprentice in the machine shop of the St. Kilts Sugar factory in 1932. Later he was one of the hundreds of workers who staged a walk out from the sugar factory following a wage dispute with management.
When he and several other workers formed the St. Kitts Nevis Trades and Labor Union and Mr. Bradshaw became a member of the original Executive Committee. In 1945, he helped to establish the Caribbean Congress of Labor and was elected its first Assistant Secretary. Mr. Bradshaw was appointed Minister of Trade & Production in 1956.
In 1958, he was elected to the legislature of the new West Indies Federation and became the Federation's Minister of Finance. When the Federation......
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