WORK AND WAGES.
SOUTH AFRICAN UNREST. [By Electric telegraph—Copyright] lUnttkp Pbesb Absociatiow.l (Received 11.5 oa.m.) Capetown, January 4.
Unrest among tiie raihvaymen is increasing. A meeting at Pretoria passed resolutions requesting the Premier to abandon retrenchment.'
The miners of Johannesburg are arranging for a general strike for the seventh, unless a settlement is arrived at. Several Natal mines have already struck. The masters are prepared to give 17s per day with a fifty-seven hours week, and time and a "quarter overtime. Indians were fined 10s or a week's imprisonment, for declining to work.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 5
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93WORK AND WAGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 5
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