BOTHA DECLINES TO BE DICTATED TO.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7

BOTHA DECLINES TO BE DICTATED TO.

o [BY LABOUR OFFICIALS; By Ttkffrapli—Press Aosociation— Oopyrisht Cape Town, Octobor 19. Speaking at Utrecht, Genoral Botha, Union Prime Minister, referring to tho Labour unrest, said lie would not t-oler-ato being dictated to by Labour officials. Touching tho position of tho railways, ho said it was clear that retrenchment was necessary, but tho Government was at once threatened with a strike. Howover, those threatening him at tlie revolver point would bo bittorly disappointed. The Johannesburg mining companies have agreed to reorganise tho Transvaal Miners' Association and discuss tho questions iu dispute. TRADE UNIONISTS ASSAULT ON wON-UNIONISTS. Sydney, Octobcr 20. Two miners named Thompson and Abnoy have been arrested on a charge of assault with intent to murder two non-unionists in the Deep Loads Mine, Beaufort. Tho arrests are tho outcomo of an attack by a body of unionists upon four non-unionists, two of whom took rofugo in tho bottom of a shaft until released by tho manager. The other two were forcibly removed from tho mine by unionists. It is alleged that shots wero fired during tho melee. SYDNEY SLAUGHTERMEN ON , STRIKE. Sydney, Octobor 20. . A Btrike of Blaughtcrmen for an increase in pay to thirty shillings per hundred sheep is causing a serious block in the meat trade. CHILD MORTALITY IN DUBLIN. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 19. Sir Charles Cameron, Health Officer for Dublin, in a report, states that child-life has run to waste in tlio city through defective social organisation. The death-rate amongst tho very poor is 30.6 per thousand, the high rato being caused by overcrowding and underfeeding.