SOUTH AFRICA

Southland Times, Issue 17608, 24 March 1914, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA

LABOUR AND THE RAND (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) CAPETOWN, March 2.2. The real explanation of the Labour victories on the Rand is the rapid growth of the Syndicalist propoganda. As an immediate result the general elections have betn postponed until 1915. INDIANS SENTENCED DURBAN. March 23. Received March 23. 10.30 p.m. Thirteen Indians have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour for rioting at Bsperanza in November. ’ “A REBEL AT HEART.” By Telegraph—Tress Assn.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 23. George Kendall, the Organiser of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, whose extradition is reported the South African Government Intends to apply for, • addressed a meeting in the Socialists’ Hall. He sad—“lt has been demonstrated by industrial action that we can hope, in Soutli Africa at anyrale, that we will come Into our own shortly. Wc have the workers educated up to intermittent strikes and also to sabotage.” He was not adverse to murdering a “scab.” He hoped the Government would not extradite him. He had conformed with the laws so far hut it was not known if he always would conform with them, because he was a rebel at heart and In all probability he would become a rebel in this country, bnt the Government must leave him alone until he violated the law. George Kendall, a South African strike leader, arrived in Australia lately by a cargo steamer. The visitor is one of the few leaders who escaped arrest while the upheaval on the Hand was at its height. “Two days after martial law was proclaimed,” he said to an interviewer. “members of the executive of tho ’trades Federation were arrested at the Trades Hall. This was on January 17. in ton minutes detectives had secured the executive officers of the whole union. I was talking to a friend on the stairs as the detectives were coming n'ong the street, and. my office hoy giving me the ‘tip’ I slipped away. This I did so as to fulfil the instructions of my union that I should avoid arrest if possible and carry on the fight. I was not long in getting a new executive together, and I also issued a dally manifesto to refute the. untrue statements of the Government and press and to place the true facts of the situation before strikers. Under martial law no one could move without a permit, but we got over the restriction by means 'of carrier pigeons and faked passes. At last.” proceeded Mr Kendall, “our printing plant was discovered and confiscated. For some time I used as a substitute a duplicator and typewriter, but tha police got word and raided my house. Eventually the police made it so hot for me that I decided to leave the country. I had already had an experience of gaol, and did not want a repetition 1 escaped in disguise in a motor car to i wayside station between .ToImnnesb'Tß and Durban, and after remaining in hiding for a week boarded a cargo steamer for Australia. Mr Kendall expressed his pleasure at hing in a free country like Australia, where lie could move about without fear of getting a bullet in the back or a baton on the head.