S.O.S. from the Rand

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 16

S.O.S. from the Rand

It is now almost six months since; 1000 odd Rand strikers were thrown into Johannesburg Gaol (says the London "Daily Herald") and nearly.! 700 of them are still awaiting their trial for "high treason." Release on bail te impossible for; t__etn, the Government having cynically fixed sums ranging from £200 to £400. The result is that niosit of their dependents are near starvation^ An earnest appeal for them, written from prison, has Just reached the "Daily Herald" from "Jimmy Green, P«rli|amentary Whip to the South African. ./labour Party, who was triied and acquitted. Green, who is 'also a member of the Johannesburg Town Council, returns to find that ; in Wb absence the Council has passed" & resolution against any ©£ Vsadtt VviMisAUm. among Its employees, whilst the Chamber ot Mines declines to recognise any nnton which does not agree to its terms'. This means that municipal employ--«es In Johannesburg can belong to ■Co ttnion, and that, miners must bejlirag to a "scab* union, or to none at