A SCIENTIFIC STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 72, 30 July 1913, Page 5

A SCIENTIFIC STRIKE.

GOVERNMENT’S GREAT TASK.

FOOD SUB FLIES SHORT

[By Electric jljjleouai*u —Corviucia [United Press association.] Johannesburg, July 29. There is a great demand lor food, and Householders are laying in large stocks. Otherwise trade is stagnant. .iiCi'Ciiaucs Have cabled to stop ship mouts. mere is a growing impression that tiiy Strike Committee will defer final action until Bank Holiday, August 4. j,uo bulk of the monthly wages are duo on August 3. If the strike i, earlier it will jeopardise the person ad of the Strike Committee. Tin .me rot ary has been empowered to issue absolute, orders. 1 lie leaders have threatened to organise the strike on so-called scion ti

ac nues, causing damage and creating disturbances wherever the police am aoseiit, hoping thus to terrorise the

vlov eminent into submission. The Government’s chief anxiety i

connected witn tuo natives. Much seditions literature in the native dialects, .s oenig circulated in the mines. Thirty thousand natives have bee.

lose in Juno and July, owing to tm stoppage of recruiting. Tills is threa et'iung to throw many whites out o employment. Tne Government and the minin', authorities have completed plans tc compulsorily repatriate a quarter of a million natives in the event c: ;

crisis. Despite this, it will take i year'to restore labor-conditions.

It has been arranged that the natives shall be divided into parties o 1000 each. Lists have been prepared and experienced men speaking th< native languages are willing to com rnand parties. Haversacks are bein' prepared to enable each native tc carry enough food to take him iron depot to depot. All the leading business houses ai Capetown are organising their employees, who will be sworn in as spec ini constables if necessary. The Eng lish and Dutch farmers resent th< dictatorial tone of the Labor leaders

THE OFFICIAL DESPATCH

USE OF TROOPS WARRANTED.

(Received 11.30 a.in.) London, duly 29

Lord Gladstone’s despatches wit reference to the Johannesburg riot; have been published. These state that the use of troops was necessar; for the safety - of the whole comma nity. The Governor-General says h would not have consented to their ust in a trade dispute if the, police ha< been adequate. Ho adds that allow ance must be made for the miners who only recently realised the awfu sacrifice exacted by phthisis, whirl Lord Gladstone believes is the main root of the trouble. The troops sav id the situation, and prevented the wholesale loss of life which woulc have followed in a period of anarch, and pillage in which tens of thou sands of natives would have joined.