NO CHANGE IN FIJI
SUGAR-GROWERS' STRIKE
SYDNEY, October 1. Many Indian sugar-growers have refused to cut their cane until their demand for a higher price has been. ; granted, with the .-result that the industry is oractictally at a standstill ; throughout Fiji, says the "Sydney Morning Herald's 11 Suva correspondent. The Government established a Commission of Inquiry, at the growers' request, but at the last miijute the growers refused to give evidence. Farmers who are willing to cut cane have been given police protection. The only place to which the strike has not spread is Labasa. on the island of Vanualevu. Otherwise only one mill is working, and that only part time. Two Indians have been prosecuted under war regulations forbidding agitation likely to injure essential industries. One was, sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and the other was fined £50 for trying to stop the cutting of cane. Both have given notice of appeal, and have been released on bail. Police reinforcements have been sent to the affected areas, and no disturbances have been reported. The strike has had a serious affect on shopkeepers in the cane-growing areas, as their business depends almost solely on the harvesting, of the cane.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1943, Page 5
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202NO CHANGE IN FIJI Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1943, Page 5
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