SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE
ACTS OF VIOLENCE. EXCITEMENT IN JOHANNESBURG Cress Association—electric Telegraph— CopyrigL (Deceived Wednesday, 12.1(1 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Tuesday. (Messages from Johannesburg state that there is great excitement. The strikers’ commandoes and police are parading the streets. Several acts of gross intimidation are reported. Ail incendiary bomb was thrown into a workers’ house at Benoni. He and his wife beat off the attackers with rifle and revolver lire.
Strikers aro interfering with the motor service which has started to replace the trams, pulling off passengers. So far there has not been much response to the call for a general strike, except in the building trade. The rail way me n generally refuse to acknowledge the authority of the strike call, although one train was abandoned on the veldt and the fires drawn. To other cases attempts made to stop the running of the trains were unsuccessful.
Several shops have been compelled to close owing to threats by strikers. Aus. and. N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14610, 8 March 1922, Page 5
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