SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.
TROUBLE THREATENING ORGANISATION OF UNION. HIGHER WAGES DEMANDED. EXTRAVAGANT 'SPEECHES. EXPULSION OE WHITE MEN. By Telegraph—Press Associrtf ion—Copyrieht. (Received June 29, 7i50 p.m.) A. and N.Z. CAPETOWN. June IS. Trouble with the natives In South Africa is threatened owing to inflammatory speeches made by officials of tho Native Trade Union. These speeches culminated 'in a lightning strike of natives at tho Naatjal coal mines for higher wages. The strike was a failure, but the position in other parts of the coiintry is serious. Thousands of natives havie organised themselves into a trade uniov and claim eight shillings a day for work on farms. This is the wage paid to natives in the Public Works Department by the Government. which is said to have stated that natives could not live respectably on a smaller wage. The natives arc now dema.nding the same rate of pay for all kinds of labour, and are indulging in extravagant language. Some agitators are saying that/, they will drive, the white men out of tho country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 9
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173SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 9
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