THE RAND STRIKE.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 19 July 1907, Page 2

THE RAND STRIKE.

In connection with the outrages on the Randl it is interesting to note that the Rand strike began in the first week of May as the outcome of a decision of the Consolidated Gold Felda group io reduce the price paid to contractors per fathom by from 10s to 158, in order to approximate it to the remuneration paid 'by other groups. Fifty men of the Knight's Deep Mine struidk without makingi any representaitions, and were followed rapidly 'by mien from 1 other Gold Fields properties. The Gold Fields published the amounts ,of the dieques paid in April, varying from £.100 to £140, whereupon the strikers made iti the issue that they should 1 work only two machine dWUs. The mine managers view the strike as inevitable. They say that they.welcome it as an opportunity to intirodutoe reforms which they were previously reluctant to attempt. The outjdome, they declare, -will be the abolition of the contracting) system and of the rate of a, pound per shift and the^ introduction of closer supervision. ±. '