SOUTH AFRICA.
BLACK v. WHITE LABOR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Aug. 27. Giving evidence before the Low Grade Mines Commission at Johannesburg the Director of Native Labor uttered a grave warning regarding native grievances, especially the color bar. Serious trouble was inevitable in the near future unless these grievances were remedied. There were two alternatives, either to sit on the volcano till the day of eruption or treat the situation in a statesmanlike way by eliminating the color bar and allowing whites and blacks to compete on their merits. A statement was presented by the Mine Workers' Union in reply, strongly against any relaxation of the present regulations and urging tho maintenance of the color bar as a protection for European workers against indentured native labor, and declaring that the alleged crisis in the mining industry made it urgently necessary for tlio Government to consider seriously whether by nationalisation or otherwise it could bring the gold mines under more efficient nublic control.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1919, Page 5
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162SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1919, Page 5
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