MINERS’ WAGES
DEMANDS FOE INCREASE. STRIKE BALLOT TO BE TAKEN. BY AFRICAN WORKERS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received 1 May 12, 9 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 11. The general council of the South African Mine Workers’ Union has- decided to take a strike ballot in connection with the report of Mr Justice De Yilliers, who acted as mediator at the Mines’ Conciliation and who favoured the miners’ application for an increase in wages by 20 per cent., the increase to be retrospective to the beginning of last October. The mine-owners are opposed to granting the increase, Non-unionists will not be allowed to participate in the ballot. The Union officials were also instructed to get into touch with the engine drivers and consider means for reduction, of the number of workers ’ with a view to forming a federation of white employees in the mining industry.— Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 May 1925, Page 5
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