African Affairs.
AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RESOLVE; CAPETOWN: MarSH. 6. I’he Council bj? 17 votes to li>,, rescinded the provision that all municipal employees must belong to their respective Trades Unions. The Labour members declared that the resolution was intended to break Trade Unionism, and was a frontal attack on Labour.
CAPE HAPPENINGS. (Received This Pay at 12.25 p.m.) . CAPETOWN, March 7. Messages from Johannesburg state there is' great excitement. The strikers commandos and police are parading the streets. Several acts of gross intimidation are reported. Incendiary bombs were thrown into a worker’ house at Bengoni. He and his wife beat off the attackers, with rifle and revolver fire. Strikers are interfering with the motor service which started to replace the trams, pulling off the passengers. So far there has not been much response to the call for a, general strike, except in the building trade. Railway men generally refuse to acknowledge the authority of the strike call, although one train was abandoned on the Veldt, and the fires drawn. In other cases the attempts made to stop the running of trains were uiiscccessful. Several shops have been compelled to close owing to threats by strikers.
STRIKE COLLISIONS, CAPETOWN, March 7. A large crowd of strikers besieged Johannesburg telephone exchange and post office. They came into collision with the police. A striker was bayoneted in the lungs. Later, the police intervened to prevent the staffs being pulled out and fired blank cartridges over the heads of the crowd and succeeded in clearing the precincts, Police with fixed bayonets now surround the buildings. Police have issued a stern warning to the public to keep the streets clear. Railway fitters in GermistowU and Blooinfontein shops and other centres indicate ilo general disposition to participate ifl the strike. The federation Executive attribute the declaration of a jgeileral Strike to the provocative tone of the chamber of Mines. Tile latter expresses satisfaction in the response to the invitation to men to return to work/
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1922, Page 3
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331African Affairs. Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1922, Page 3
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