THE TRANSVAAL
THE UNEmOYED PROBLEM. Press Association—By Mcgraph—Copyright. PRETORIA, September 6. (Received Sept. 6, at 9.51 p.m.) Thero are still 800 unemployed on-the Raid; though the mines are absorbing 50 weekly. The Government has withdrawn its proclamation regarding the Pieterburg tinfields, fearing bloodshed, and also fearing that tho fields will fall into the hands of. capitalists. The Government propels to •locato the mineralised areas, plating the unemployed there. Replying to Mr Botha, Mr Carruthers (Premier of New South Wales) (states'that he is able to place 200 of the Rand nnemployod.,
, Tlie .Transvaal Government proposed to work the tin mines at Pieterburg in order to cniploy the Rand unemployed and to prevent the big mining groups from securing them. ♦
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14002, 7 September 1907, Page 9
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