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NATIVE TROUBLE

STRIKES IN SOUTH AFRICAN MINES

33,000 HANDS INVOLVED

Johannesburg, February 18. Mine natives have, latterly been showine unrest, and a strike in the East Hand Proprietary mines has now spread to seven mines, involving thirty-three thousand. The natives have been told that if th# keep quiet they will bo repatriated, as they cannot bo. given more waxes. Large forces of police are stationed in the affected areas maintaining order.—Ueuter.

THE TROUBLE SPREADING. Johannesburg, February 19. The native strike is spreading. General Smuts has arrived and conferred with the heads of the mining industry and the officials. Drafts of police are being dispatched fay different centres. Nine mines are now affected, comprising roughly 10,000 natives—Eeuter.

BLACKS WELL ORGANISED

MISCHIEVOUS EFFECT OF IDLE TALK. Pretoria, February 19. General Smuts in a speech, referred to the native trouble. He said that between 30.000 and 40,000' blacks were on strike. They were well organised,-and were picketing and doing tilings they iv mid have considered natives incapable of. Ho had seen portents and signs that a tremendous change was coming over South Africa. The nonsense they had been talkinz of the Republic's blood and tsars the native would put into practice, and too late they would find that their idlo talk had put these mischievous ideas Mo tho heads of the natives—Eeuter.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

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Tapeke kupu
219

NATIVE TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

NATIVE TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

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