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Hey hey hey...me buddy seh muss poase dis from Mr TK skool papah: 

"Ethnic insecurity was at the forefront of the Nunan-Luckhoo
scheme to renew immigration from India. Initially, the Colonisation
Scheme did not only seek labour from India, but also from the West
Indies, China and Africa (Vining 1978). West Indian governments
immediately opposed the plan, citing their own labour shortage.
The planters preferred Indian labourers, thus the proposal to
reopen Indian immigration. However, Critchlow’s British Guyana
Labour Union (BGLU) vociferously opposed the planned settlement
of new Indian immigrants (Seecharan 1997). Senior members of the
BGLU were also members of the Negro Progress Convention
(NPC). The NPC opposed the plan on both economic and political
grounds. They believed that such immigration would further
depress the wages of African workers, a position that was also taken
by Francis Kawall, the de facto Indian leader of the time and head
of British Guiana East Indian Association (BGEIA). Although the
position of the NPC appears to be grounded in sound economic
rationale, their position on wage suppression was less convincing,
given that they supported immigration from regions that would
have preserved the ethnic balance in the colony. They were,
therefore, concerned that, in the long term, Indians would dominate
the society politically, as is the case in Mauritius. Seecharan (1997)
observes that the black leaders were correct; moreover, he notes that
the Colonization Scheme would have produced an Indian majority
in the colony, with potential for their political domination."

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