THE RAND TROUBLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 5

THE RAND TROUBLE.

AGGRESSIVE LABOR

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uni'iku Press Association.) Johannesburg, September 14.

A sensation has been caused by Mr Poutsma stating that after the rioting on July 5 peace was concluded at tiic point of the revolver. Mr Smuts has emphatically denied Mr Poutsma's statement. •

Mr Lain, secretary of the Federation of Trade Unionists, now states that when the settlement was signed tin Ministers and delegates went on tin balcony of the Carlton Hotel. Soldiers had their rifles levelled, and if a shot had been bred, General Botha, Mi Smuts and Colonel Trotter (Chief oi Police) would not have lived a minute

.Matthews, secretary of the Miners Association, states that two members of the Labor Party, covered Botha.am Smuts with revolvers, intending to kil. them if the troops below fired a single shot.

A great Labor Party tlemonstratioi 'was held in the Market Square to-day. It was resolved at all costs to re-es-tablish the right of free speech aiu public assembly.

A SINISTER THREAT.

London, September lo

The Telcpraph's Johannesburg correspondent says that until the laboi leaders made their revelations' it was generally believed that General Both.) had secured a stoppage of hostilities by threatening the labor leaders that they would be tried summarily and instantly shot if they continued openly hostile, •

THE RIGHTS OF INDIANS

(Received 8.30 a.m.)

Johannesburg, September 15

The chairman of the British Indian Association, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, demands the removal of the racial bar in the Immi gration Act in regard to the re strietion of the Indians' rights and the removal of the tax from the former when indentured. The letter adds that passive resistance will be revived, which will not be confined t r the Transvaal, and that women \vib take part in the movement.