CHINESE ON THE RAND.
CHALLENGING CRUELTY ALLEGATIONS. fMISE-OTFX'ERS HOISTED OX THEIK OWN PETARD. INQUIRY DEMANDED. Received 3,1 a.m. Ciriiiowx, February 3. Three thousand persons met al Johannesburg for fus purpose of protesting against tlie slanders iu England against the Transvaal community. Charles Leonard, President of the Johannesburg National Union, challenged the noisy minority to substantiate the allegations of cruelly. A member of the audience thereupon ajwoted the ill-usage of sixChiuese conwirts by warders, and offered to produce witnesses regarding the ill-usage in mines, if a guarantee were forthcoming that the witnesses would not suffer as regards their employment. A guarantee to protect the witness 's was carried by an overwli'lining mi jority. A resolution was then moved iu the body of the hall, urging the Mother land to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire. iuto the conditions of Chinese labour on the Rand, and carried uuani. ; mously.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8044, 3 February 1906, Page 3
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147CHINESE ON THE RAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8044, 3 February 1906, Page 3
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