INDIAN STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
-o—, —— SIGNS OF COLLAPSE. By Telegraph—Press ASfiopiition—Copyright Durban* November 20. One hundred and sixteen Indians wore sentenced to sevon* days' imprisonment, with hard labour, and fifty-four wore fined 10b. The Magistrate announced that tho £3 tax would not bo- repealed until the strikers returned to work. Tho announcement is regarded as a statement of the Government's policy. 1 Tho Natal Indian Association .is providing strikers with food, and is in a 1 position to do so indefinitely. One hundred and eighty Indian harbour employees have been arrested for fusing to work. Some, of tho farm hands have resumed. Four bundled. Indiana at the IHovo ' Sugar Estates, armed with sticks, n.k ' tacked the police. The assailants Wore routed after a sharp conflict, and the 1 ringleaders arrested. 1 London, November 20. ' Router's correspondent saya : there aro signs of the strike collapsing, .a _i«umber of Indians 1 fearing to lose tfcir employment owing to tho intiroduc* tion of whites and Kaffirs.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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164INDIAN STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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