Union and Party Leader
So traveling, William Bramble got first acquainted with the regional efforts for unionism, although he would earnestly start in it just later in 1951, when joining the incipient Montserrat Trades and Labor Union (MTLU), in the years of its most virulent actions.
William Bramble became a local leader, against the alleged economic oppression of the planter owners and the political rulers; reportedly, by then the agricultural wages were well below the level of subsistence. Hence, Bramble adopted such causes, particularly organizing periodic strike actions; in a speech for the 1951 election eve he stated: "Listen to me, you landless people, you people, the industrial machinery of this country, arise, and throw off the yoke that binds you like slaves to the Wade Plantation."
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