African Affairs.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1922, Page 3

African Affairs.

AUSTRALIAN AND 11. Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE STRIKE PEELING. more men return to work. .Received This Day at 8 a.ml) CAPETOWN, March 6. The refusal of the Chamber of Mines to recognise the Industrial federation has given great offence in trade Union circles. A mass meeting- of three thousand strikers at Johannesburg demanded a general strike. It is believed, nevertheless that no matter how the ballot goes the men will return to work in increasing numbers. CAPETOWN, March 6. , The strike leaders have completely bplit into three principal bodies, the Strike Committee, Council of Action, and Industrial Federation, and are at loggerheads. The first two demand a general sympathetic strike immediately and remodelling of the federation. This labour chaos has raised the temper of the strikers who me actively picketing. Strikers shot in the leg a worker who was trying to escape them but despite intimidation the men are returning to work in increasing numbers. - MEN RETURNING TO WORK. REUTER’S TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 6. Two hundred men presented themselves for signing on this morning at Johannesburg. Active picketing is in progress. One man returning to the Crown mines was shot in the leg. The extremist section is growing violent in the demand for a general strike. GENERAL STRIKE CALLED. CAPETOWN, March 6 The joint executives of the Labour Federation and Trades Unions decided to call a general sympathetic strike, without fixing a date. The conference rejected the Federation’s decision which was in favour of taking a ballot on the strike question.

THE CAPE STRIKE. (Received This Day at 1.5 p.ir..) CAPETOWN, March (i The general sympathetic strike has been fixed to start at sev/jn o’clock on Tuesday morning. It is considered there is little prospect of the appeal for a general strike proving successful. A Communist flag was displayed at Trades Hall. TIV strike-s besieged the building and refused to leave it until the Conference executives Federation and Trades Unions declared a general strikte.