PAPERSPAST

Blood-stained Millions

Sir Julius Wernher, a Rand magnate, was grabbed by Death recently. He left behind him property to the value of £11,500,000. ■'" lAnothcr Rand' magnate *gave up the ghost some timo ago., Beit was his name. . He left behind him a trifling £8,500,000. ' . , 7 ...... Wernher and Biet were in'the' same gang as Eckstein and Oppeuheim, who, unable to grind tiie noses of the .South African' wage-slaves sufficiently,..'. ..en: giiieered. .the. Eocr. War.......That little undertaking cost nearly 25,000 British lives.. ... 7- But these are not the only.lives sacrificed to gather the gold of the Anglo- Saxons of Jerusalem. Ponder om. the -figures given below, figures to which we are indebted to I the London "Daily Herald";— 1.. "On the Rand,, from the gold mines of which Wernher and Beit made their money, one niiher in every three has phthisis, as tho result of the horrible conditions.under which he has. to work. ./"Wernher and Beit left £20,000,000. "Miners' phthisis is incurable, and fatal within about three years. "Wernher' and Beit left £20,000,000. "About 4,000 white men and 'over 70,000' blacks on the Rand are suffering from miners' phthisis, in their task of building up fortunes for the Rand - magnates. •■ ■ ■ •"Wernher'and Beit left:£20';000,'000. :-. "The average life of the mirier,- after leaving hi? work through phthisis, is five and a-half months. "Wernher .and Beit left £20,000,000. "The Minors' Phthisis Board, taking 200 typical cases, reports that the lives of the men. in question have ben shortened by 27* years, after only three years' work und-rsround for Messrs. Wernher. Beit, Eckstein, Oppenheim, Albu. Phillips, and their collea_U"s. "Wernher and Beit left £20,000,000. "More than 1,000 white men are killed annually in the ' Rand, mines, owincc to phthisis and accidents.-"Wernher and Beit left £20,000,000. "Therfeis an annual tell of more than 300 widows'and'6oo orphans, as the result of' the efforts'of the miners to build up colossal fortunes "for Sirs Wernher,' Beit, and colleagues.■• " ' '"Wernher'-arid Beit left £20;000.000. "At'least 7,000 blacks lose their lives _nnua_y' in 'the' same manner. "•' "The mining magnates say they v vc_nnot afford" to- instal- the necessary ap-' pa rat'us to reduce, if not eliminate phthisis. ■■• '•' I 1 '"Wernher and Beit left £20,000.000. '•'.Th*. profits of the Associated Rand Mines for tho past year amounted'to £1i_35,846, an increase of £100,-164 over the preceding year, in spite of Labour troubles. "Wernher'and Beit left £20,000,000. Tho Associated Rand ' Mines paid two dividends of 110 per cent, during the past 12 months, in spite of Labour troubles, making a total distribution of profits amounting to £10 928-849. "Wernher and Beit left £20,000.000, ; "The" of. reserve of- the- Associated Rand Mines at the present moment is valued at £48,903.000. "Wernher and Beit left £20.000.000. But Wernher and .Beit left 20,000,--000, and so long as working men are content to sacrifice their lives on the altar of Capitalism, so long will other Sir Wernhers and other Sir Beits reap the proceeds of their sweat and lifeblood." -

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