GENERAL CABLES.
STRIKE AT JOHANNESBURG. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received May 14, 5.5 pjm. Capetown, May 13. A strike occurred at Johannesburg owing to the Town Council refusing to concede the demand of the engineers in municipal employ 16-2s weekly wage. The light and tram services were interrupted, the city beiug in partial darkness and a large number of people unemployed. Subsequently the strikers consented to keep the light and water supplies at normal. Suburbanites were compelled to walk to t?ie city as the result of the stoppage of the trams, and the carriage of large quantities of meat in cold storage was affected.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1918, Page 5
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103GENERAL CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1918, Page 5
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