THE AFRICAN STRIKE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 12 January 1922, Page 5

THE AFRICAN STRIKE.

MEN’S UNEXPECTED MOVE. Press Assn.—By Tel.—Copyright. CAPETOWN, Jan. 10. The men’s federation made an unexpected overture for a settlement tonight and asked General Smuts to cal) ■a meeting of the employers and the federation to discuss the question. Despite the submitted basis on which the union is prepared to discuss the settlement, this stipulates the withdrawal of the employers’ ultimatum or notices that no further reduction in wages will be made until the margin between the assumed increase in the cost of living and the actual increase has disappeared, and also asks for an adjustment of coal miners* wages on the basis of no greater reduction than half the amount the employers proposed. In regard to the goldmine dispute it asks that the policy of replacing white workers with cheap coloured labour be departed from, and that a definite ratio of coloured workers to white workers be fixed; that stipulations also be made in regard to power works and engineering employees with the object of settlement by mutual agreement.