Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler (21 January 1897 – 20 February 1977), was a Grenadian

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-born Spiritual Baptist

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 preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago

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. He is best known for leading a series of labour riots between 19 June and 6 July 1937 and for forming a series of personalist political parties (the British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, the Butler Home Rule Party and finally the Butler Party

Butler Party

The British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, also known as the Butler Home Rule Party and more commonly as the Butler Party, were a series of political parties in Trinidad and Tobago organised by T.U.B. Butler.-History:...

) that focused its platform on the improvement of the working class.

Butler first came to prominence in 1935 when he led a "hunger march" from the oilfields to Port of Spain

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