WELL BEATEN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 5

WELL BEATEN.

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKERS.

MINE UNION OFFICIAL^

1 DEMANP.

WANT MARTIAL LAW WITHDRAWN;

By Telegraph-Press A3Mc&i^|g^iiffht

Johannesburß.^Januarj^i'ioK-, llicre is no material:v;chamx6?;aii^tlie: mini ng posit ion .■'■'■:. : :i: :' : !'uii

[he majority of, the-:'niines;:are*m ; ;full';i swing, tun nulls are ers at then- posts, biiUheMiTinosUwoi-k----shops employees have iiot;yet:s!gned ; it is officially stated that'the: railway-i position is almost normal everywhere';*;; ( Nearly eight hundred are' w'orking*iiiJ t.in workshops in Durban, wkere'Hiie ma-? jority of firemen and eleancrs'lia'vo-also:-resumed. ■ ~.-..■'. i"Siff^c :: '?^V< ■ Pretoi-la,: Jan\iarVi2o]K|? A proclamation ■ has-, been.'issued demobilising certain forces>."-in«PretoriaS t'aurcsmith, and Durban? i s at tho Ralld and-,>Tatal i i:qn;Jan'ii-J: Two hundred signed Pretoria-; workshops to-day. ;i;j"; &:■,&.k^tfPjj-t The engineers"and-.' still standing out &m]y£%&p3's£ : ;l!gtsl "NO COINC BACK^:f£|£§ STATEMENT BY MINERsC'SECTIS' TARY.-;.-.^^.^;^ Johannesburg, "Janiiarv^2o/-S! • Mr. Matthews, general secretary:.'i'of; the South African ■ Mine t. Workers'.' union, of which the Transvaal Miners' Association is the main ed by Router, said- "As.-far'-'.'asVthe' 1 Miners' Association h concerned'there' can be no going back until the Govern-:' ment removes martial law, and"; allows! us to hold meetings to see what are the I views of the men. Seeing that the men's' ballot, by over two-thirds of a majon'tv;:i favoured the strike, we. cannot.'.?allow? them to resume until that' deeisioiftis'l reversed, either through tho Federation':; or the agency of the Mine.;,. Workers'-; Union." ' .-.-..'£ $ik-rf&s:?:i

Another Reutor 'message "stntesjtliiittho standard rate of pay' who have been leiiistated >ill noti;":.ba iterfered with. ■■ sSi'i-fSf^-'fV:

STRIKE LEADERS Q\ R\il

Durban, January}2o;>' Roydell, Kentbridgc, . Tilbury,' ■;> si ml Raybu'rn. four of the arrested" strike leaders, have been allowed hail," tiie'two first in sums of £too, and the other .two in £150, subject to certain undertakings,', the details of which have not.been'.-, disclosed. '", :*:WS.?;'"&