STRIKE MAKES INSOLVENTS.
ROTNATION AHEAD. fit (Received 11 a. ml CAPETOWN, April ii. At the annual meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce at Johannesburg the president of the chamber referred to the serious effects of the recent miners' strike, which had attempted to bring about a revolution in industrial and economic conditions. Tlie number of bankruptcies had increased as a result of the strike, and ruination was facing a considerable portion of the population. Unemployment was rampant and there was every prospect of taxation being increased. The president said that probably no more disastrous condition of things in relative magnitude, had ever visited the country at any previous time.— (A. and XX Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 5
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