NATIVE WORKERS
DIFFICULTIES IN SOUTH
AFRICA
CAPE TOWN, Jan. .19/ The prevalence of strikes in South Africa, especially among natives, has caused tine Labour Minister,: J^r. Madeley, to send a, letter to. the Trades and Labour Council, .intimating that the Government intended to prosecute strikers or persons who incited others to strike in defiance of the statutory and emergency regulations for the settlement of disputes. Employers who fail to carry guV wage agreements will also be prose' cuted; . . r A Church deputation interviewed Field-Marshal Smuts and advocated the right of natives to forjn trade unions. , The Prime Minister replied that Communist influence was working on a fairly large \ scale in Soiith Africa. If native trade unions could be formed along sbuncj lines it w^uld be one of the best steps forward. He would accept such a solution provided that safeguards were devised to prevent the exploitation of the natives.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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