TRANSVAAL-MINING.
AYIIITE FOR BLACK. ' iA GREAT DEAL 'IN A LONG TIME, BY. TELEGHAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYIUaiIT Pretoria, March 11. The Rand Mining Commissioners—who have reported in favour of tho gradual replacing of coloured bywhito laHour, arid of •an . eight-hours'. day, in., mines—omplinsised the' fact, that' tlierb was /no essontial: diiferenoo between the importation of Chinese and Portuguese natives. One was just as desirablo as the other. ; Tho Commissioners declaro that it is possible to make the Transvaal as attractive to working men as aro, Australia and California. . Mr; Smuts, Colonial. Scofetary, while professing to be convinced of the desirability of' substituting whito for coloured labour, declares it to bo one; thingto introduce a theory gradually, and quite another to upset the whole oconomic condition of society.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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125TRANSVAAL-MINING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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