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:est, Alonzo F.; Colon Post Office, Colon, R.P. I arrived here in Panama on the 18th day of July 1912, and two days after I got a job in Gatun Cement Shed over Spill- way the General Foreman were Mr Gay. After being laid off from there I worked for McClintic and Marshall on the building of the gates in Gatun locks. I worked there for 82 months at that time convenience were very scarce so at times I had to olimb on rope or cable wire like amonkey to get to the scaffle where I- has to work, but thank God, I saw many of my comrades fall'and lay dead, but the only reward that I got was a cut over my right eye with a hot rivit and after being laid off from there I got a job working for the first division. Pulling cables that works the Power house and under the tunnels. and doing electric work all around and I worked there until after the opening of the waterway, then the first thing to pass through were the tug boat Gatun. There were many white men around there whose name I really don't remember, but one was Mr Delong. After being laid off from that I did a few more short jobs which did not last long. I worked on the trans- mission line, the wires running along the railroad on the poles, the last two days of the month, sometime in the end of 1914, and I never got no pay for it,. it were 13Y per hour 9 hre per day. On the Pay day when I went for the check, tnere was none for me, and I ask the foreman, and he said, maybe through being the last two days of the month, that may be the cause of the mistake, and the next month there were none. So I became the loser of 2.34. And in 1915, February I begun to work on Railroad Docks in Cristobal, until 1917 July, I joined the British ELpedicionary force in world war I, and went on to Europe. I returned back.here from France July 24th 1919, and two months later I worked again on the docks until the end of 1953. Old age catch up on me and my service were terminated. Please excuse me for any mistakes, for old age takes away rememberance. I Re::ain Your Servant ALODLO 21T Dr- No. 6216 |
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