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The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 16• We shall return to this point later, meanwhile, let us continue to present the rationalizations of the Portuguese government as stated by its leading representatives. As a result of these declarations the Portuguese government passed a number of labovr laws to put into effect the above mentioned policy. In 1926, just before the Salazar regime was established, a decree was issued declaring that forced labour could be used in the public interest, which included private projects, involving a small remuneration. After a series of attacks by international organizations which accused Portugal of slavery, especially after the exposures made by Professor E. A. Ross of Wisconsin, U.S.A. in 1928, the Indigenous Labour Code was passed. This Labour Code was intended to give protection to African workers by defining a whole area of colonial labour relations, and altering some of what it acknowledged as "excesses" in the recruitment and treatment of African workers. It was aimed at guaranteeing to the African "full liberty to choose the work which best suits him." Since this Code never actually affected the labour practices to v/hich the white settlers were accustomed, and since the international criticism continued, the Portuguese government felt compelled to issue another lav/, namely, the Colonial Act of 1930. This Act stated, inter alia, that "the system of native contract labour rests en individual liberty and on the natives' right to a just wage and assistance, public authority intervening only for purposes of inspection." Subsequently legislation on colonial matters included some labour clauses reaffirming the above laws. This v/as the case in the Imperial Organic Charter of 1933, the Organic Overseas Law of 1953 and the 1954 Native Statutes for the Provinces of Guine, Angola and Mozambique. The Native Statutes declared, among others, that the State would try to make the native recognize that work constituted a indispensable element cf progress, but that the authorities could only impose work upon him in cases specifically covered by the law. It went on to reaffirm what had been said before in other legislations, namely, that the Native may freely choose the work he want s to carry out, either on his own account or for others. Article 34 of the above Statutes says that the use of native labour by non-Africans rested on the Africans' freedom of contract and on his right to a just wage and assistance, and must be inspected by the State through its appropriate organs. One peculiarity of Portuguese colonial practices is their
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Full text | The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 16• We shall return to this point later, meanwhile, let us continue to present the rationalizations of the Portuguese government as stated by its leading representatives. As a result of these declarations the Portuguese government passed a number of labovr laws to put into effect the above mentioned policy. In 1926, just before the Salazar regime was established, a decree was issued declaring that forced labour could be used in the public interest, which included private projects, involving a small remuneration. After a series of attacks by international organizations which accused Portugal of slavery, especially after the exposures made by Professor E. A. Ross of Wisconsin, U.S.A. in 1928, the Indigenous Labour Code was passed. This Labour Code was intended to give protection to African workers by defining a whole area of colonial labour relations, and altering some of what it acknowledged as "excesses" in the recruitment and treatment of African workers. It was aimed at guaranteeing to the African "full liberty to choose the work which best suits him." Since this Code never actually affected the labour practices to v/hich the white settlers were accustomed, and since the international criticism continued, the Portuguese government felt compelled to issue another lav/, namely, the Colonial Act of 1930. This Act stated, inter alia, that "the system of native contract labour rests en individual liberty and on the natives' right to a just wage and assistance, public authority intervening only for purposes of inspection." Subsequently legislation on colonial matters included some labour clauses reaffirming the above laws. This v/as the case in the Imperial Organic Charter of 1933, the Organic Overseas Law of 1953 and the 1954 Native Statutes for the Provinces of Guine, Angola and Mozambique. The Native Statutes declared, among others, that the State would try to make the native recognize that work constituted a indispensable element cf progress, but that the authorities could only impose work upon him in cases specifically covered by the law. It went on to reaffirm what had been said before in other legislations, namely, that the Native may freely choose the work he want s to carry out, either on his own account or for others. Article 34 of the above Statutes says that the use of native labour by non-Africans rested on the Africans' freedom of contract and on his right to a just wage and assistance, and must be inspected by the State through its appropriate organs. One peculiarity of Portuguese colonial practices is their |
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