every election campaign since August 1930 in the Assembly aimed at lowering the income qualification for a franchise but was thrown out by the Legislative Council. Not until an identical bill was introduced in the House in 1936 was it successfully moved and seconded by Chrissie Brathwaite; still, it failed: "Till the working class is organized to provide the guts for the democratic movement political and social conditions will be what they are." Prior to the 1937 riots, the white planter and merchant were dominant in the Barbados Houses of the Legislature. But political activity in the working class was beginning to grow, under leaders such as Wickham, Inniss, and O'Neale. As a result of this rioting the Labour leaders of the time - Grant, Skeete, Lovell and Alleyne - were given heavy prison sentences for sedition, and one leader, Clement Osbourne Payne, was deported. Clennell Wickham died in Grenada in 1938, aged 43. Barbara Wickham, his surviving younger sister (1999), related how on his return to Barbados he had been asked to vacate a church pew reserved for whites. Clennell stormed from the church, never to return. Gilbert Grindle, Assistant Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office in London, wrote that "the black man has come to think and feel of himself as good as the white". His son, John Wickham, followed in the footsteps of his father and became literary editor of The Nation, one of the leading newspapers in Barbados. He had a career in the World Meteorological Organization, which took him to Europe for several years, and served for many years as the editor for the literary quarterly magazine BIM. His short stories have been widely anthologized. Among his collections are Casuarina Row (1974) and Discoveries (1993). He also co-edited The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. Now an award in non-fiction prose, named after him, The John Wickham Scholarship, is presented each year to an individual who uses language to inspire, entertain and educate. The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage was unveiled at the association's Clennell Wickham Memorial Lecture in 1996 by the Barbados Association of Journalists. Since November 2009, Clennell's grandchildren Fran Wickham and Peter W. Wickham (himself also a political journalist/commentator) now present the "Karin Dear’s Hall of Fame" award to deserving journalists at a ceremony held annually in Barbados. "Regrettably I have to confirm that for the first time since my Grandfather Clennell Wickham