“THREATS AND CUSSES.”
INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE IN JOHANNESBURG.
DRAMATIC EPISODE AT TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.
Australian and N.Z. Oabl® Association. (Received March 31, 1 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, March 29 A meeting of the Town 'Council, after a hot debate, decided by eighteen votes to thirteen to retrench thirty employees at the municipal power station. ./ , The galleries . were crowded with council, employees and'other workers.who hurled threats 'and curses at' the councillors, sang the “Red .Flag, .and dispersed in disorder. I There was a dramatic opisode at tli;^conclusion, .when a /Laborite ..coitncillor shouted “The CoffSil will rue' the clav when it cros;,% a twvords ivitli organised Labor.” } )0 -f A ballot of master buildonp ift j Johannesburg and Pretoria '(Jecided overwhelmingly against further concessions to tho men on strike.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5136, 31 March 1919, Page 5
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