GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

STRIKE AT JOHANNESBURG

iff CABLE-—PRESS ASSO-lA-lOS—COPYRf _t. j CAPETOWN, May 13. A strike occurred at Johannesburg owing to the Town Council refusing to concede the demand of the engineers in municipal employ 162s weekly wage. The light and tram services were interrupted, the city being in partial darkness, and a large number of people unemployed. Subsequently the strikers consented to keep the light and water supplies at normal. Surburbanites were compelled, to walk to the city as the result of the stoppage of the -trams, and the carriage of large quantities of meat in cold storage was affected.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.