Labor Unrest
SERIOUS POSITION IX SOUTH AFRICA. GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED. By Oaible—Press Association —Copyright Capetown, January 4. The. unrest among railwaymen is increasing. A meeting at Pretoria passed "resolutions requesting the Prime Minister to abandon retrenchment. The miners at Johannesburg are arranging a general strike for January 7 unless a settlement is arrived at. Several Natal mines have, already struck. The masters are prepared to give 17s a day for fifty-seven hours a week, time-and-a-quarter overtime. S-e.venty-nine indentured Indians were fined 10s, or a weeks' imprisonment, for declining to work.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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90Labor Unrest Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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