STRIKE IN PORT ELIZABETH
(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, November 11. Ninety per cent, of the Africans in Port Elizabeth yesterday obeyed the call of the African National Congress for a one-day strike as a protest against the City Council’s curfew and ban on non-religious meetings. There were no pickets to interfere with the Africans who went to work. The strike caused a 20 per cent, cut in electricity production, and nd Africans reported for work at some of the port’s biggest factories. Most workers of mixed blood, however, were at work and managements said that production had not been affected as much as it might have been.
Few Africans appeared on Port Elizabeth streets, and police stood by at the nearby Driftsands aerodrome ready for action if required.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26886, 12 November 1952, Page 9
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