SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5507, 13 January 1914, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

CABLEGRAMS

United Press Association By Electric|Telegraph-Oopyright

THE RAILWAY SERVICE. NORMAL SERVICE EXPECTED TODAY. Received 9.30 a.m., 12th. Johannesburg. January 11. Mi Hoy, the general manager of railways, anticipates being able to run the normal train service tomorrow. A few railwaymen have already resumed, and a number of others wish to do so. The Natal mail train departed today, and three trains arrived from the Cape. Other services are being resumed. Special police, enrolled by the vigilance committee, patrol the streets. They are wearing red armlets. It is expected that armed burghers will take charge of the mine natives, relieving the ordinary police of this responsibility. The Labour party have issued a manifesto in which they claim that by imprisoning the leaders the Government has outraged the Constitution. The manifesto urges the reconstitution of the Railway Board, so as to include elected representatives of the organised railway workers. Capetown, January 11. The defence force is guarding the docks.

Two hundred of the Scottish Horse have been sent to Jagersfontein. Armed burghers escorted 250 Basutos from Jagersfontein, as they refused to return to work. Owing to severe drought in Orangia, the stoppage of traffic ..vould severely imperil food supplies. Everything is quiet at the Cape. Emissaries from the Transvaal secured no response to the strike resolution at the Salt River railway works. VARIOUS STRIKE MEETINGS. WITH DIFFERENT RESULTS. Received 2.45 p.m., 12th. Capetown, January 11. A meeting of two thousand Cape railwaymen decided against a strike. Pretoria, January 11. Two thousand affiliated to the building and other trades practically unanimously demanded a general strike. Johannesburg, January 11. An orderly meeting of 9000. held in the Market Square in support of a general strike, summoned the Government to resign, and declared that Mr Hoy must go. It was decided to petition the Imperial Government not to permit the use of Imperial troops. Flags were flown inscribed "In memory of the victims of 4th July" and "In memory of our martyrs." '1 he speeches were moderate, urging the workers not to infringe the law. The police were absent from the meeting. MOBILISATION SATISFACTORY, CAPE WORKERS AGAINST STRIKE. INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES. "THE SENTINEL GATES OF HELL." Received 11.40 p.m.. 12th. Capetown, January 12, Apart from the consideration con- ; nected with the strike, the mobilisa j tion is considered a gratifying test ! of the efficiency of the newly-com- \ pleted Union defence organisation. The mobilisation in the Cape Peninsula is due to rumours of (lis- i affection among a section of the j workers at the Salt River. Great weight is attached to the Cape railwaymen's meeting, at | which all the responsible leaders | completely disassociated themselves ; from syndicalist revolutionary met- j hods and opposed a general strike. ; Only one speech favoured a railway ' strike. Mr Lyons, the local president, and Mr Harmon, the vice-president, declared that the Cape workers believed in constitutional methods, and these had not yet been exhausted, Mr Smith, the railwaymen's secretary, remarked that the strikers were already hopelessly beaten. He added: "Let the workers consider their wives and children." Johannesburg. January 12. Mr George Mason, a member of the executive of the Trades Fedeiation, at the Market Square meeting declared that the Government had received a bombshell on sth July. ; This time they would be annihilated. He exhorted the workers to speak through the bullet holes of the victims of the 4th of July massacre at Braamfontein. "They mutt win," j he added, "even if the streets were piled with dead." Mason described the Corner House as the "sentinel gates of hell," He added: "The strikers are animated by a spirit of rebellion." Mr Bain, in a more conciliatory speech, urged that there was still time for a settlement of the dispute. He suggested the formation of a Railway Board, with half workers and half Government nomi- • nees, to solve the difficulty. He challenged the Government to arrest him if they wanted to. He added: "If trying to help one's; fellow citizens is sedition, I will preach sedition until 1 die.-" Resolutions were adopted sup- I porting the Trades Federation and the railwaymen's demands, also in ' favour of a general strike. Durban, January 12. A ballot of workers in the railway shops yielded a majority in favour of a strike'. The majority of the train running stall voted against a strike, and declare their determination to work while protected. Nevertheless, the locomotive men, al- j though condemning the strike, re- j solved not to work trains for the | Rand. WOMAN MURDERED BY NATIVE. STRIKE OF MINERS BEGINS. THE FIGHT AT JAGERSFONTEIN. Received 8.35 a.m., 13th. Pretoria, January 12. A child witnessed a native strangling and mutilating Mrs Hood, a housekeeper, at Foraburg. The murderer escaped. The mine owners at Vanryn, in Eastland, are paying the miners special rates to keep the natives in hand. The Daily Maii's Johannesburg correspondent reports that a strike of miners has begun at Eastland. Detaiis from Jagersfontein show that the native concerning whom rumours of his having been kicked to death by a white caused the trouble died in the hospital. The order to (ire on the rioters was given only in the greatest emergency. Three were killed and several wounded. A luil followed. The natives resumed the attack, whereupon the whites in self-defence killed three i more. Many were wounded, live [ subsequently dying.