SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE.

(By C-ble.—Presa Association—Cop-rris-U JOHANNESBURG, January 27. The court-martial acquitted Drake and Steyn on charges of having caused an explosion. LEADERS DEPORTED. CAPE TOWN, January 27. Tho Government has decided to deport tho ten principal Labour leaders, including Watson, Poutsma, and Bain. They will be conveyed to Durban and embark to-night on a steamer which will not touch at any port till reaching England. ENGLISH PRESS VIEWS. (Received January 'i-th, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 2S. The "Daily News' says that the deportations arc a plain declaration of war on all labour organisations. The action proclaims that a workman, in attempting to obtain an improvement of his economic position, puts himself outsido tho shelter of the law. Workers bred in British traditions cannot -it tamely under such a system. Tho "Daily Chronicle" says that -he deportations aro a grievous bluuder. For every man deported, a dozen will arise. General Botha is affronting Liberal opinion throughout the world. Labour will bo aghast at tho spectacle of good men and true doing what looks like the dirty work of tho remorseless and pitiless capitalists of the Rand. Tho "Standard" says that reasonable people will not raise objections to the deportations, except on tho score that those deported aro not particularlywanted in Great Britain. BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE. LONDON, January 27. The London Builders' Industries Federation resolved that all workers should withdraw from jobs where builders had been discharged for not signing tho employers' agreement. The decision affects plumbers, cranodiivere, and others, though the roasters have not required them to sign the agreement. COAL PORTERS' STRIKE OFF. There aro signs of an early collapse of tho coal strike. Many malcontents are resuming. Free labourers, attracted by wages averaging 35s to 45s per week, are maintaining an almost normal supply. The Coal Porters' Union is ill-supplied with funds. The strikers at Clerkenwcll accepted a penny por ton advance, objecting to penalise good employers. The strikers will resume to-morrow. The South Londou Coal Company .and all tho co-operative societies conceded a penny advance, and other firms have followed their example. RIOTOU. UNEMPLOYED. (Received January 53th, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 27. At Dante, Virginia, tho police dispersed riotous unemployed garmentworkers. PRINTERS'STRIKE ENDS. LAUNCESTON, January 28. Tho printers' strike has ended, terms having been arranged. A VICTORIAN DISPUTE. MELBOURNE, January 28. A conference representing the Engineers', Boilermakers', Shipwrights', and Ironworkers' Unions decided that members should refuse work on any job for the Harbour Trust until the claims for trade union conditions were recognised. • Smi__l3l___SSoNS. (Received January 28th, 11.30 p,m.) SYDNEY, January 28. Addressing the Australian W T orkers' Union Conference, Mr Spence said that the Brisbane, New Zealand, and South African strikes showed that the ruling classes tyrannised over the workers by using unreasoning brute force, sometimes bludgeoning peoplo to death, therefore some of thoso wild-brained - men advocating a universal strike ought to learn that until Labour got control of Parliamentary and other machines, brute forco would be employed to crush unions. It was due to tho big unions getting together that the threatened spread of the New Zealand strike was prevented. This would be followed by tho establishment of a constitution which would bring together as many large unions as possible, thus controlling a large force of workers in Australia. ARBITRATION COURT ELECTIONS. (PBT-fiS AKROrTATIOX TK--GRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 28. Mr W. Scott has been, re-elected as employers' representative on the Arbitration Court, and Mr W. Pryor was similarly returned as deputy-represen-tative. The voting for the workers' reprebentative was as follows:— J. A. 3-cCullough (Cbristchurcb) 912 A. Rosser (Auckland) ... ... 184 Six other candidates ... ... 12 Tho voting for the deputy-workers' representative was as follows *— E. J. Carev (Wellington) ... 337 W. T. Young (Wellington) ... 206 E. J. Howard (Christchurch) .. 179 T. Long (Auckland) ... ..." 154 A. H. Cooper (Wellington) ... 130 Eight others ... ... 50