STRIKERS GET NOTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1922, Page 5

STRIKERS GET NOTICE.

. RAND MINING DISPUTE. MEN SUSPECT OWNERS. OF PLAN TO OUST WHITES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Otupj-rtSht.) (Received 2 p.m.) CAPETOWN, January 26. So far there is no sign of a settlement of the miners' strike. At a conference on the question of the gold mines ihe men's representatives argued that the mine officials should be retrenched correspondingly with the miners. They declined to accept the figures of Ohe ratios presented on behaJf of the Chamber of .Mines and declared that the present crisis was only temporary and that the Chamber was taking advantage of it to force the position and get rid of the whit* l miners. An official summary of the conference states that the men'scase ii more a matter of charges against the mine owners than argument on the existing situation.— (Reuter.) The colliery section of the Chamber of Mines bns withdrawn its offer to the coal miners on the ground that sufficient time has elapsed for them to give an answer. Subsequently notices were posted at the collieries discharging all the strikers. The federation submitted to the Chamber of Mines proposals for a basis of settlement with regard to the coal section, and asked for the withdrawal of the notices and submission of tbe dispute to Arbitration. As regards tho gold j section they ask for the withdrawal of all notices and no interference whatever with the status quo agreement. Tho I Industrial Federation and the unions separately are prepared to discuss with the employers all other questions in disI pute in conference in accordance with I past procedure. No settlement of the general strike will be made until the various outstanding disputes are settled. When the strike confe/rence resumed to-day the workers continued their attacks upon the Chamber's proposals, and declared the Government and the Chamber of Mines were in collusion with the mine owners in limiting production in order to increase the profits. One delegate said the men would not be defeated without bloodshed. The conference has virtually ended. The men's delegates declare that no good purpose could be served by continuing the discussions. Tlie representatives 0$ the Chamber of Mines emphatically against terminating the eonfereitie before they ' were given an opportunity to reply to the men's charges. No afternoon session was held, but the conference'will meet to-morrow to hear the r«sult of the proposals which the federation has submitted to the Chamber as given above.—(Reuter.)