STRIKE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1793, 4 July 1913, Page 7

STRIKE WAR.

DECLARED BY RAND MINERS. TROOPS MUSTERING. ANXIETY ON STOCK EXCHANGE. B7 Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Cape Town, July 2. In connection with the general strike at the Hand mines, to bo called on Friday, police detachments from various towns are concentrating in Johannesburg. The authorities are arranging to proteot all who arc willing to work. The Royal Scots Fusiliers are guarding tho powerstations. The natives have declined to go underground at the Modder mine, becausewhite bosses are Dot there to look after them. Fears are entertained that the railway men will join the strikers. SIX THOUSAND MEN OUT. APPEAL TO THE GOVERNORGENERAL. (Rcc. July 4, 0.20 a.m.) Johannesburg, July 3. Six thousand miners are out;on strike out of twenty thousand white miners. The Union Cabinet has appointed an Arbitration Board to investigate the troubles, and has asked the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Gladstone, to use his influence towards a settlement. RESTRICTION OF GOLD OUTPUT. London, July %■ Tho Stock Exchange is concerned over the Rand miners' strike, a.9 the threatened restriction of the gold output is serious in view of the present world-wide monetary stringency.

MORE PAY ANtl LESS WORK. GROWING SLACKNESS APPARENT. London, July 2. Lord Aberconway, presiding at a meeting of the shareholders of John Brown, anil Company, steel manufacturers, shipbuilders, and engineers, at Sheffield, complained that the workers were giving less work for more pay. Slackness was gradually eating up the profits, and ho feared that slow delivery would result in loss of orders. INCITING TO DISOBEDIENCE. LABOUR LEADERS AND SOLfIIERS. Paris, July 2. The secretary, treasurer, and eleven leaders of the General Federation of Labour have been arrested for inciting soldiers to disobedience. UNION LIBEL ACTION. DAMAGES AWARDED. London, July 2. Mr. Williams, Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Men, and Mr. Thomas, Labour M.P. for Derby, bare recovered .£SOO against Mr. Passmore, a unionist, for accusing them of robbing the union. . Plaintiffs alleged that Passmoro was actuated by malice, becauso they could not call a strike when Passmore was dismissed from his employment. . SCOTTISH MINERS. London, July 2. One hundred thousand Scottish miners have received an increase of threepence per shift.