LABOR PROBLEM.
JOHANNESBURG MINES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Capetown, Sept. 9. The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines informed the Labor Commission that the total South African supply of native laborers at present available is 235,600. The Transvaal mines, which are now absorbing 198,960, would in five years require 368,000, and goneral South African requirements at that date would absorb 650,000. The Chamber estimated that nearly three millions in dividends had been lost through inability to keep the presont stampers working. The only solution would be the importation of unskilled labor. ___
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 992, 11 September 1903, Page 4
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