LABOUR ON THE RAND
GENERAL STRIKE ANTICIPATED. POLICE PRECAUTIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, CAPETOWN, January 6. It is anticipated that the ballot of unionists will result heavily in favour off a general strike. Police are being drafted to the coal strike area from all parts of South Africa.—Reuter. * GENERAL SMUTS INTERVENES. MINERS’ DEMANDS. CAPETOWN, January 5. . ■ General Smuts is intervening in the coal strike, and is endeavouring to secure the reopening of negotiations with a view to submitting the dispute to arbitration. The men insist that the Chamber of Minesmust withdraw all their ultimatums. The Government is enforcing the mining regulations, consequently work in all the mines has been brought to a standstill. The railwayman have decided not to handle “black” coal, except on the main lines.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 7
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