THE RAND STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 589, 30 July 1913, Page 5

THE RAND STRIKE.

THE PARTIES PREPARING. REPATRIATING NATIVES. V.vTrl.-r:,,,!. I'-,- A..-..-.:,!!,... . 1..,., rI K IH Received Oiic day. '.1.,'i0. ,lohann< shurp. Timed ay. There if a great demand for food and bour-ebolders are ikying in largo ptockH, hot otherwise trnde ip Plag „.,„!. jVierchanls bare cabled to prop shipments. There if a growing, wrpiesnon Unnt the Strike Con.mil toe will defer final action until the bank holiday on AligUPt 'till. The hulk of the wage: are duo on Au/rufit :ird. and if Oiey rtrik.- earlier will be jeopardised. The personnel oi' Ihe Slrilw Com mittee is secretly < nijuiwi red, and ban issued absolute order:, thai the leaden* threaten t.o organi.'-e a sit ike on »><>■ caliod scientific linre causing damage and creating dipt .ijrhamwp whoever the police are .nbs<lit. hoping thtiP to terrorise the Cevernmciit into submission. The Government's clue!' anxiety IP connected with the nafivep. Much seditious literature <n the native dial. <{ n* circulating ■'< the minep. Thirty thonpand native were lout >» June and July owing to the stoppage! of recruiting, threatening to throw many white- out. of <n>ployment. The (,'overmentif mining authorities have completed plans to em.ipi:l repatriate a qnarlei of a million natives in the even, oi a crisis. Des pile th<-pe : tepp if w ill lake a yeai to restore labour condition:. ft in arranged that the natives will lie divided into parties of a thousand each. Lists have bc--n prepared of experienced men speaking the native language who are wjH>ng to eommand parties. Havespackp have been proparedt to enable- each native to carry enoug.h with him f" take him to the depot.