SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14609, 7 March 1922, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

STRIKERS INCENSED. AT EMPLOYERS’ DECISION. i ! ft-.es Association—Electric Ttlcarapli—Copyrign CAPETOWN, Monday. The refusal of the Chamber of Mines to recognise the Industrial Federation has given great offence in trade union click’s. A mass meeting of three thousand strikers in Johannesburg demanded a general strike. It- is believed, nevertheless, time no matter how the ballot goes the men will return to work in increasing numbers. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. SPLIT AMONG LEADERS. CAPETOWN, Monday. The strike leaders have completely split, and the three principal bodies, the Strike Committee, the Council of Action, and the Industrial Federation, arc at loggerheads. The first two demand a general sympathetic strike immediately, and the remodelling of the federation. This Labour chaos has raised the temper of the strikers, who are actively picketing. Strikers shot in the leg a worker trying to escape them, but despite intimidation men are returning to work in increasing number^.—Reuter. SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. (Received Tuesday, 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Monday. The joint executives of the Labour Federation and Trades Unions decided to call a general sympathetic strike ■without fixing a date. The conference rejected the Federation’s decision which was in favour of taking a ballot on the strike question. —Aus. and N.Z, Cable Assn. ACTIVE PICKETING. EXTREMISTS GROWING VIOLENT. (Received Tuesday, 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Monday. Two hundred men presented themselves for signing on this morning at Johannesburg. Active picketing is in progress. One man in returning to the Crown mines, was shot in the leg. The extremist section is growing violent. in a demand for a general strike. — Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.