THE RAND STRIKE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8864, 15 July 1907, Page 2

THE RAND STRIKE

To be Fought to a Finish

Press Association. —Copyright. Capetown, July 14,

Pour thousand" strikers on the Rand have determined to fight to a finish and have cabled labour bodies in Australia, New Zealand and America for assistance. London, July 14.

Mr Outhwaite, a labour leader on the Rand, in a letter to the Daily Chronicle, states that the miners a month ago applied to the British trade unions through Mr Ramsay MacDonald for financial assistance or to compel the Imperial, Government to wihdraw troops but no response was made. Pretoria July 14. General Botha replying to _ a miners’ deputation declined to legislate in favour of arbitration this year. He advised the men to resume work. The deputation repudiated responsibility for possible bloodshed in view of the attitude of the Cabinet.