Miners Plan to Petition King
Mr D. E. Ellis, secretary of the South African United Mine Workers’ Committee, said that the union was, determined to continue the. strike at the gold mines until the King reached the Rand, when the miners would petition him to intervene. Mr Ellis said the miners expected the King, as a democratic monarch, to sympathise in. their struggle for a democratically run trades union.—Capetown, Feb. 9.'
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1947, Page 5
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