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Born in September 15, 1889 / Died in May 22, 1948 / Jamaica / English

Career

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Writer. Worked as cabinetmaker's apprentice and wheelwright; constable, Jamaican Constabulary, Kingston, Jamaica, 1909; longshoreman, porter, bartender, and waiter, 1910-14; restaurateur, 1914; writer for Pearsons Magazine, 1918, and Workers' Dreadnought in London, England, 1919; associate editor of Liberator, 1921; American Workers representative at Third International in Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1922; artist's model in mid-1920s; worked for Rex Ingram's film studio in France, c. 1926; shipyard worker, c. 1941; worked with the National Catholic Youth Association, 1944-48.