African Affairs.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1922, Page 1

African Affairs.

UISTBAI.XAN AND. N. Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION

the REPUBLIC claim. CAPETOWN, February 6

Fifteen Nationalist and Labour mommembers of Parliament in Pretoria received the deputation transmitting the strikers resolution demanding a Republic. Roos Chairman of the Transvaal Nationalist Party said the party would do nothing unconstitutional, because for one thing, they were only partly armed, and would b« shot down like dogs. Other Nationalist speakers said they had enough of a Republic by violence. Uultimately the meeting appointed a Committee of three Nationalists and two Labourites to consider the deputation’s request. Johannesburg message states a big meeting in the Town Ball strongly condemned Sunday’s Republican resolution, the speakers exhorting the strikers to stick to the economic issues.

LABOUR MEMBERS -ANXIETY. JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 6

Mr Boydell, leader of the Labour Party . .disclaims any sympathy with Waterton’s revolutionary proposals, and declares that in any case the Nationalist Republic would be a social and economic disaster; at the same time he declares that tbe policy of the Governmen is mainly responsible for the present situation. Mr Barlow, the- only Labour member for the Free Stne also repudiates Waterston’s tactics and calls on all workers of the Free State to support the constitutional authority in any efforts to put down revolution. Other Labour members here also repudiate tbe resolution. It is reported in Pretoria that the Conference between the Premier and the Industrial Federation has been brokn off without any agreement being reached.