NATIVE FIRED ON
TROUBLE IN, AFRICAN MINES
STRIKE TAKES SERIOUS TURN
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this clay at 2.30. p.m.) CAPETOWN, May 29.
Natives in the copper belt went on strike during the week-end owing to the basis of taxation being altered. The strike spread from mine to mine, demonstrating the remarkable cohesion'' among tjbe different tribes. . Th polled" arrested the ringleaders, and it wgs believed the trouble was over, but there was serious news tOA, day from the. Itoan .Antelope that the natives had to be fired on, ' six being killed. Troops being rushed to the mine, as the managers fear destruction of the plant.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1935, Page 6
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