AGREEMENT REACHED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1913, Page 7

AGREEMENT REACHED

STRIKE TO BE DECLARED OFF. TERMS OUTLINED. JOHANNESBURG, 6th July. Although the Government at the outset was censured in, many quarters for apparent initial mi&talcec, it is now generally admitted that .they, j?«re never ,

an instant inactive, and were fully aware of the tremendous issues involved. General Botha (the Union Premier) and General Smuts (Minister for Defence) conferred with Mr. Lionel Phillips (a partner in Wermher, Beit, and Co.), Sir George Farrar (chairman of the East Rand Proprietary Mines), Mr. Chaplin (another representative of the mineowners), and the strike leaders, and an agreement was reached on Saturday evening to terminate the crisis immediately on the following basis: — , (1) The strike to bo declared off. (2) The strikers to return to their homes. (3) All disturbances to cease. (4) The new Kleinfontein strikers to be reinstated. (5) The Government suitably to compensate the strike-breakers, who must in nowise be victimised. (6) The strikers in other mines to resume work. (7) The workers' representatives to be entitled to submit any grievances to the Government, who shall enquire into them.