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A Chap Named Florizel. Spotlight Toppled though he has been from vice­ termite-ridden and uncomfortable as well presidentia.J office in IJle Party, Glasspole's a~ unsatisfactory. current status as a mere executive member But only the most ardent Glasspole sup· of the People's Natiodal Party is advanced porter docs not retreat before the flood of by his adherents as proof that Glasspole counter arguments that the capital expense does not run with the hare and hunt with of his mammoth n.dministrative office might the hounds. have been ~hared to other over-urgencies: school buildings. low-income housing for His reputation is remarkable. for any pub­ families of 'choolage children. For unesti· lic personality the crass opportunities in m<atcd numbers of Jamaica's school age bred by the t~·ke-over, the concession grant, population have neither clothing nor trans­ general expansion. is exposed to conditions port to attend school. which an unsophisticated society has made The priority accorded what Jamaican the occasion for whispers or favours for double entendre terms Gln.sspole's Glass­ sale in cash or convertibles; company shares houo,c is in ranJ... contradiction to the plight for example. of children in every parish of Jamaica Yet Glasspole's unimpeachability could whose three R's is the rock Glasspole must make him disliked. For the quality of un· throw down. For he is the personification reachability vexes rea-chers. Frustrated, they of his (,overnmcnt's education policy. In become active enemies. Such enmity h.1s the magnitude of his task, the modernistic but to grow widespread to catapult Glass· architeclllre and mammoth building are pole from a political ambition which pcrh;aps c~sential to the Education Minister. though never uttered by himself, also never Hi'> own public image has come about since has he denied. For Education Minister the "glusshousc" rose. Glasspole is a legitimate candidate for the A Man at Peace. Confidence and ease are Jamn.ica Premiership. That, in the regional in his phrases now. His gestures arc re­ scene makes him de facto a possible Federal str<tined. Gone are the platform antics and Prime Minister. intemperate .. upcrlative~ that once enchanted Modern and Mammoth. But the future h mobs. Gifted oratory, inherited from his intangible. The years which elapse between Mcthodi..t minister fa the r, the late likely occupation of the highest office in the Thcopilus A. Glasspole. still falls from his State, Glasspole occup:es with a plodding. lir': but per~ua,ive phrases, the occaHonal patient performance that in itself empha~ist:s cla~sic quotation. the jest. are evidences of the caution with which he works toward~ hi, a man at peace with his world and enjoy­ ultimate goal. ing his work. , The Education Minister e:-.udcs confidence that his mission is to A symbol of the preparation of him~elf is the five storey Ministry of Education that establish in Jamaica. an education ~ystem dwarfs now all structures in Kingston. 'I he that entitles all children to secondary rduca­ defensive logic for this controversial build· tion. Glas\pole's task is to translah.: into effect his leader's declaration that ..E duca­ ing is that £~-million of cement, steel an,l terrazzo had to be reared up to garner and tion was once the grea.t divider <'f the classes. This Government is determined to contain the multiple department~ of Gll!.ss­ remove 1hat division.'' pole's portfolio. Previously, the ~ l inistry's offices had occupied a scatter of old house.,, Ght~spolc himself is the product •>f the A CHAP NAMED FLORIZEL (see Cover) Florizel Glasspole. the big man with the ear-to-ear grin, eyes that , clo~.: when hi!> loud, throaty laughter rings out. needs only the addition of a cigar to l'C mistaken for the symbol of Mr. Good Times. Yet sound financial prosperity never crosses the path of Florizcl Augu~tu~ Glass­ pole. Minister of Education in the Govern­ ment of Jamaica. As one o( the few persons in the top hierarch} of the People's Nation~.) Party who is still unbesmirchcd by the hot scandals bandied about with cynical sneer, Glasspole is b:!lieved to be a man standing apart from big money-making op­ portunities available to people on the inside track. There, without possibility of suc­ EDUCATION MINISTER FLORIZEL GLASSPOLE ' cessful contradiction, F. A. Glasspole is. Preparing for the uhlmate gaol. 14 SPOTLIGHT NEWSMAGAZINE, M\Y, 1961 complete transition from primary school, to secondary school, profession, college. In his youth the job preceded college, but im­ plicit in his wort.. is transposing the order to college, then profession. No less than 80 University College of the West Indies scholarships came from his Ministry's largesse this year. T be Cocked Ear. H 1\ own experience was that from Central Branch Element:•rr School be went, as mo~t lads of his clnss d"d and still do, to Wolmer's Boys' School. In 1938 he was an accountant at S. N. Shoucair Ltd.. textile importers. An un­ eventful. placid future lay before him. hl\t why young Gla~spole looked up from hi-. de~k to interest himself in a movement which as a professional he might justifiably have considered him~elf as be"ng a cut ••bove, is not quite clear. Perhups hh Methodist upbringing with its social em· phusis could not be denied. Whatever thl! explanation. Glasspole was active in .he " GLASSPOLE'S GLASSHOUSE" formation of shop assistant~ into Jamaica's Scholarships a nd t he removal of division. first trades union. He became secretary of the Jamaica United Clerks Associution West Indian. not cxcludmg the ftambo}unt inevitable ':tcrificc\ 'he too had made to with a membership of 2,000. Bu,tama-nte. building up the worling-dass movement. The militancy of this middleclass group As a negotiator on behalf of labour, ~~~ "Bro~ n Bomber". When the fir~t election~ was synonymous with island-wide wage re­ a man who is cogent, shrewd and gets held under adult suffrage brought H orizcl volt by agricultural workers. The sudden things done, Glas;pole commanded such Glru.spolc romp1ng to the top of the polls foment was beyond the capacity of colonial respect that in the hobbled political years in Eastern Kin~ton, his public career took administration. To the unexpected utter­ of World War II when Jamaica waited for final course. Glasspole was one of four ance of a barrister, Norman Manley, thM the p<ilitical pa.ttern promised in the Royal successful PNP candidates in the 32 mem­ what Jamaica needed was "a labour party," Commission's recommendations. Glasspole ber House. He was named parliamentary Glasspole cocked an car. Manley's attrac­ was called to boards whose very name des· secretary to the tiny Opposition, led by D r. tion for him, ignited in the confused, bloody cribed the unrest of those times: Govt. Ivan Lloyd, a left-of-centre physician from working class upheaval of 1938, has Workmen's Compensation Law Revision St. Ann. Five years later with '"other deepened into a personal loyalty of Odys­ Committee; Middleclass Unemployment election, Glosspole whose election cam­ seusian steadfastness. Committee; Wages Board, Apprenticeship paign earned him the sobriquet "Brown Committee; Minimum Wage for Baking, Bomber" in in-itahon of the then reigning Simple courage - or braggart daring - Printing, Drygoods Board. Glasspolc Wls Joe Louis, was back as Opposition Leader. or unquestioning trust in Manley made Jamaica correspondent to the British T.U.C. Another five years later, after mas:.ivc re­ Glas~pole a foundation member of Manley's upon whose oovicc and sometimes financial orientation of the party had plummeted the People's National Party. Tba.t self-com­ aid the working-class movement leaned PNP into power, the "Brown Bomber" mitment ini day when the demand for heavily in years of longdrawn buffeting by made it as Leader of the House and ills" Sci( Gover n ent was virtually treasonable, an administration that was timid to over­ got the Labour portfolio. proved fort us for Glasspole. His mem­ throw convention. His record since has been efficient but bership and activities in trades unioni~m Lean Year Sacrifices. Glasspole's undis­ undramatic, save for the brief spell in mid- brought him to the direct notice of tho puted influence.<; with all classes was bought 1956 when a city dock strike threatened Royal Commission which investigated social at the price of his personal wage packet. to shorten the island's food supplies. He and political conditions in the West Indies The honoraria here-and-there from trades prodded the government to bring in the ~~~ <!· result of the 1938 disturbances. The union organisations were slim. He had soldiers to unload the ships, effectively Commission's Labour members were es­ given up his weekly paid post wi{h smashed the mike that was being held by pecially impressed with the inherent lcader­ Shoucair's after union and party work left the BITU dockers. ~hip qualities and quick intelligence of him no time to do a steady job. To eke Glasspole. He was granted one year's Then in November 1957 Cabinet Govern­ out an existence even by the modest middle­ ment came to Jama1ca. One of the changes \tudy at Ruskin College, the workingman's class standards of these times his wife, the wrought wa~ the creation of the Ministry in\titute at Odord. former Jna Kinlocle turned to dressmaking of Home Affairs that took charge of in­ Cogent and Shrewd. Upon that foundation for which she had great talent. Even today, ternal security. Ivan Lloyd who was in Glasspole's native characteristics developed.
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