SITUATION RATHER BETTER.
A STEADYING EFFECT.
(Received Thursday, at 9.35 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Wednesday. The railway situation at Salt River and other points in the Cape province is rather better this morning. The proclamation of martial law in tho northern provinces and the exceptionally drastic regulations are supposed to be having a steadying effect on the waverers.
Various trades in Capetown, nevertheless, are discussing the abvisability of striking, and many are strongly dis posed thereto
The Governor-General's proclamation has been placarded in the streets of the city, as in other centres of the Union, and applies equally to the Cape province, except as lar as martial law is concerned.
The Federation's general strike order applies lor the present only to Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. It iB understood that the Cape Trades and Labour Federation will call a general strike in Capetown or not, according to circumstances.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11879, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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147SITUATION RATHER BETTER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11879, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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