JOHONNESBURG STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 583, 9 July 1913, Page 7

JOHONNESBURG STRIKE.

TROOPS STILL ON GUARD. RAILWAYMEN TO STRIKE. IF TROUBLE CONTINUES.

By Telegraph.- I'res* Ashoi'wvUoii.- Ororlijlu Receive i Tue°day, 11.30 p.m. Johannesburg, Tuesday. The forceß employed in quelling the disorder corißißted of 730 Hussars and Dragoons; 2400 Scots Fusiliers, Bedfords and South S tailor ds; and 3000 police. The Corner House is still strongly guarded owing to rent-wed threats to blow it up. Attempts to blow up the railway ! overnight between Johannesburg and Germiston failed. Practically every . gunsmith's and jeweller's Bhop in the j central area has been looted. J Despite the surface calm the autho- § rities are adopting greater precauI tions. A strong contingent is standing j to arms within sriking distance of the I danger spots. Two hundred and fifty railwaymen assembled at the Government Building, Pretoria, awaiting tlia reault of the deputation. They noticed the Union Jack flying: and demanded that it should be half-masted. Two work-

I men, one carrying a revolver, ascended the roof and saw the demand carried out. At a conference between tho strik" leader, Mr Botha and Mr J. C. Smuts, the miners declined an amneßty for the men guilty of blowing up the buildings and incendiarism. The Government refused to recognise the militants and will probably not receive their deputation. The strike leaders Btate the full j terms of settlement embrace more I than the documents signed on Saturday. They resent the conditions that the miners will only be re-employed as they are wanted and insist that provision shall be made for the men to ■enable them to return forthwith, which i i more' important than providing strike breaker j. The more a ivanced leaders in order to strengtjen their postion and weaken the militants*, are endeavouring to make out they consented to a better bargain than they actually did. Newspapersi published to-day state the Railwasiuen's Executive resolve if miners decide to continue the Btrike a general strike of railwaymen will be declared.

NATIVE MINERS STRIKE

THE SITUATION IMPROVING. Johannesburg, Tuesday. The natives im the villages of the main reef city and suburban mines have atruck for more pay. Troops are held in readiness. Many natives, in imitation of the white strikers, are wearing red rosettes, erroneously believing the whites struck for more pay, which they received Native labour leaders are endeavouring to induce the natives to resume. A thousand Kaffirs- in the Meyer and Charlton mines; broke- -out of the compound. They returned! when the troops appeared, but refused t» descend the mine. The situation among' «*ie whites is improving and strikers* «» resuming. The banks and sho ps *re opening and newspapers publishing-