NIGERIAN MINE WORKERS
DEMAND FOR REMOVAL OF EXECUTIVES
(Rec. 9 p.m.) ENUGU (Nigeria), December 25. A deputation representing about 6000 African miners of the Govern-ment-owned Enugu colliery to-day demanded the immediate removal of six senior British colliery officers. The deputation said that a strike would be called if the demand was not conceded.
A previous strike by the miners for increased wages led to the fatal shooting of 20 Africans by the police on November 18. An inquiry into the November disorders at the Enugu mine is now being held. Mr Okwudili Ojiyi. secretary of the Nigerian Colliery Workers’ Union, said to-day: ‘‘lt is the general feeling of my comrades that it is impossible to work with the six men whose removal we are demanding.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25996, 27 December 1949, Page 5
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