EXTRA EDITION. SOUTH AFRICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. SOUTH AFRICA.

* SERIOUS WARNING REGARDING NATIVES' GRIEVANCES

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Aug. '28, 12.35 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Aug. 27. Giving evidence before the Lovv- - Grades Mines Commission at Johannesburg, the Director of Native Labor uttered a grave warning regarding native . . grievances, especially the color bar. ■Serious trouble was' inevitable in the near future unless these grievances were remedied. There were two alternatires—either to sit on the volcano till the day of eruption, or to treat the . situation in a statesmanlike wav, by .. eliminating the color .bar,, allowing whites and blacks to compete on their , merits. A statement wag presented by the Mineworkers' Union, in reply' •strongly against any relaxation of the present regulations, urging the color . i>ar as a protection for European workers against indentured nativelabor, and declaring that the alleged crisis in the industry made it urgently necessary for the Government to consider seriously whether, by nationalisation or -otherwise, it could bring the gold mines . -under more efficient public control.