RAND MINES.
COST OF WHITE LABOR. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, June 28. Speaking in the Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg, the chairman, referring to labor objections to the importation of tropical natives as contrary to the ideal of a white South Africa and preventing the substitution of white unskilled labor for black, eaid that such substitution would mean an addition to the wages bill of twenty millions yearly, whereas the total working profit of all the mines last year was 11$ millions. In other words such a change would instantly destroy the whole in-dustry.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1921, Page 5
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95RAND MINES. Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1921, Page 5
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