LABOUR CIRCULAR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2121, 13 April 1914, Page 7

LABOUR CIRCULAR

IN SOUTH AFRICA TO ORGANISE THE WHITE WORKERS By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDTrlehi (Rec. April 12, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Johannesburg, April 11. Eight filousand labour men in the Market Square carried a resolution to resist any. attempted repressive legislation. Tom Mann lias signed a circular on behalf of the Transvaal Federation >.f Trade Unions, urging the workers to remember the deaths of their comrades, shot by the Government's orders in defence of tho capitalists, and to remember the deportation without trial. The circular declares that railwaymen arc working for starvation wages, 4s. per day, and many for only 3s. 4d. per day, equal to Is. 6(1. per day in Europe; that goldmining is carried on under murderous conditions; and that the average life of the white miner is five years. Only one-fourth of the white workers of South Africa are organised. This mustjCsays tho circular) be altered. Tho unions must co-operate, and prepare for solidarity. RECALLED. THE COMMANDERIIN-CHIEF. > By Teteerapli—Press Aeeociation-CopyneiU London, April 11. General ..Sir Reginald Hart, who has been Commander-in-Chief in South Africa since 1912, has been recalled. Lieutenant-General Sir James AVolfe Murray is succeeding him. It is believed that the Ministry wishes to disassociate itself from the recent drastic actions of General Botha., Prime Minister of South Africa.