WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 55, 10 July 1913, Page 5

WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?

THE JOHANNESBURG RIOTS

COMPENSATION CLAIMS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ! [United Press Association.]

London, July

The Speaker declined to allow the Johannesburg riot to be discuuel as

a matter of urgency. He ruled ‘hat the imperial troops were retained m South Africa at the Government s re-

quest. Several members complvned of the lack of information received from Viscount Gladstone (Govcrnoi-

General)

Mr L. V. Hareourt, Colonial Secretary, read Viscount Gladstone’s telegram, and added that the troops hid not fired, except when disorder wm most serious, and some of the deaths

ere duo to the rioters’ mdiserm n

ate shooting

The Johannesburg natives lave icsumsd work at the Meyer an? Glia' 1-

Tho natives in a vd’ago on the mam reef refused to work, and ‘■toned the police, who fired over • acsr heads and drove tliem hack to their quaiters. r !l.ey subsequently retime 1 a to work.

There was similar trouble at a ullage at the Deep Mine, which has been settled. It is believed flat the native trouble is over.

The strike-breakers claim three years’ wages and compensation aggregating £60,000.

THE LIST OF KILLED

Johannesburg, July 9

Those killed included Mr Buducs (a member of a Hamburg firm), Mr Forbes (municipal accountant), Mr lloseberg (a theatre proprietor), Mr Hertzbeg (a pianist), Mr Vindermere (a photographer), Mr Hackett (a dcnth't), Messrs Vilrera, McLoney, Labusclmgne Coleman, Thompson, Benson, Lihvyker and Vestagrun (miners), Mr Wool (railwayman), and Mr Cook (brickmaker).

THE AFTER EVENTS. The police are making numerous arms Ls in connection with the riots, including an incendiary. The speakers at various meetings included Crawford (a socialist leader). The court was held in the fort of the prison, because it was deemed unwise to escort - the prisoners to the city court.

The Star proprietary had received repeated threats that their works and buildings would bo destroyed. A hole was discovered to have been bored in the foundations, large enough to contain sufficient dynamite to wreck the premises. The Transvaal Provincial Council passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the relatives of the Johannesburg victims.

A Labor member has given notice Lo move a resolution condemning the Government for depriving the people of the right of free speech, and the light lo hold meetings. He also urges the recall of Viscount Gladstone and the Imperial troops. The Federation of Trade Unions’ Executive decided to hold mass meetings throughout the country, including Johannesburg, on July 11, to demand Viscount Gladstone’s recall, on the ground that he had authorised the use of troops in an attempt to suppress free speech and public assembly, which resulted in the indiscriminate shooting of defenceless men, women, and children.

Capetown, July 9

A mass meeting of workers condemned Viscount Gladstone’s action in using the troops in an industrial dispute, and demanded the recall of the troops.