Residents elect a delegate to the US House of Representatives who may only vote in House committees.
1970. Social unrest hit the islands during the 1970s. Regardless of their ethnic rivalry, oil and plantation workers joined forces during the 1975 strike to demand better conditions. The strike movement was finally quashed when the People’s National Movement called on the army to dole out gasoline.
Residents elect a delegate to the US House of Representatives who may only vote in House committees.
