SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15740, 3 February 1922, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

GERMISTON ACTION CREATES NEW PHASE.

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(Pouters Telegram.) (Received Feb. 3, 10.55 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 2.

The action of the Germiston strike committee is now being considered by. the general council of Miners’ Union at Germiston, consequently the visit to General Smuts has been postponed pending the decision of the council. Meanwhile the new position thus raised lias ousted every phase., of the strike.

LIVELY TIMES AT GERMISTON

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Received February 3, 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 2.

The announcement that the Germiston Strike Committee intended interviewing General Smuts caused much excitement among the extremist section of the strikers, it being interpreted as desertion from the federation. It transpires that when the committee were sitting last night a hostile crowd of miners rushed the office and denounced the committee for selling them to General Smuts, and kept them prisoners until they promised to abandon their intention to go to Pretoria. Feeling runs high. A meeting of strikers adopted a resolution asking the Federation to declare a general sympathetic strike on Saturday.

Coal strikers! at Wilbank asked the Federation to interview ' General Smuts with a view to ending the coal trouble.