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A lot of literature has already been published about the Sette Giugno riots which occurred on a Saturday of the year 1919. The riots claimed the lives of four people: Carmelo Abela, Manwel Attard, Giuseppe Bajada and Wenzu Dyer. The third victim, Giuseppe BajEmigrant Giuseppe Bajada’s shooting on Sette Giugno
A lot of literature has already been published about the Sette Giugno riots which occurred on a Saturday of the year 1919. The riots claimed the lives of four people: Carmelo Abela, Manwel Attard, Giuseppe Bajada and Wenzu Dyer. The third victim, Giuseppe Bajada, hailed from Gozo and is of particular interest because he is closely associated with the attempts of the government of the time to send its surplus Maltese population to English-speaking countries like Canada and Australia. Bajada was born at home on Tuesday, March 8, 1881. He was the first among seven siblings. The family lived at 32, Bullara Street, in the village of Xagħra, which at the time was referred to as Caccia in Gozo. Probably he attended the village’s primary school which had opened some 25 years or so previously, because emigration records show he was literate. He may have also attended the night classes the government had set up purposely for the would-be emigrants. In his early 20s Bajada travelled to Malta to seek better opportunities for work. He could easily settle there because his relatives had already established themselves, with their families, in Msida. Bajada took up residence on Capucchins... Read more
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