SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Mataura Ensign, 9 March 1914, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

DEPORTED LABOR LEADERS. THE INDEMNITY BILL. BT BLZOTBIC TELEGRAPH COPTBIGIIT, PBB UNITED PBESq ASSOCIATION CAPETOWN, March 7. Ihe Indemnity Bill has passed the report stage, Mr Merriman's amendment to cancel the banishment clause being negatived bv 73 votes to 29. The third reading will take place on Monday. "WE MUST RETURN." DEPORTEES TO RETURN. | LONDON, March 7. ! Mr Poutsma (one of the deported south African Labor leaders), speaking at Mile End, said: "We must return to South Africa. If we are re-arrest-ed you must know, and when the news reaches England you cease work immediately." Hundreds of Labor supporters, singing Socialistic songs, farewelled Mr Tom Mann at Waterloo station. The 'Evening Standard' says that the deportees entertained Mr Tom Mann at supper, and primed him on the South African position, though he did not rethe unanimous support of the deportees to confirm the arrangements now m progress for the boycott of South African goods. COST OF STRIKES. CAPETOWN, March 7. Ihe Estimates provide for £260,000 to cover the cost of the repression of strikes from July to January, includ£l77,ooo, cost of the mobilisation of January. WRITS AGAINST UMGENI. , LONDON, March 7. Ihe,deported strike leaders have issued writs against the owners of the steamship Umgeni (in which they were conveyed to England). HANDLING OF PRODUCE. MOVEMENT IN LONDON. LONDON, March 7. Reuter's Johannesburg correspondent says that a private cablegram states that ag a result of conferences of the London transport workers, wool operatives, and dockers' unions, it has been! agreed as a protestagainst, the Indem-' nity Bill not to handle South African | imports. j Communications are being exchanged j with the Berlin headquarters of the International Trades Union and the Socialist secretariat. 1