STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICAN
MEN SEEK SETTLEMENT, CONDITIONS ADVANCED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyriftl. Received Jan. 11, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, Jan. 10. The men’s federation made an unexpected overture for a settlement tonight, and asked General Smuts to call a joint meeting of employers and the federation to discuss the question! in dispute. They submitted a basis on which the unions were prepared to discuss a settlement. This stipulates the withdrawal of the employers ultimatum or - potices, and that no further reduction in wages shall be made until the margin between the assumed increase in the cost of living and the actual increase has disappeared. It also asks for an adjustment of the coal-miners’ wages on the basis of no greater reduction than half the amount the employers proposed. In regard to the gold mines dispute. * the men asked that the policy of replacing white workers with cheap colored labor be departed from, and a definite ratio of colored workers to white workers be fixed. Stipulations were also made in regard to the power works and engineering employees with the object of a settlement by mutual agreement.—Reuter Service.
' GOLD MINES IDLE !'* COSTLY BUSINESS. Capetown, Jan. 10. The gold mines are idle to-day, but the Federation provides for pumping, lighting, eanitation and what are considered essential services. Members engaged in industries other than those directly involved are called upon to hold themselves in readiness to take sympathetic action, and the Government has warned the defence force to be ready to turn out at an hour’s notice. A number of Dutch policemen brought from other districts refused to handle rifles, saying they were not soldiers. This is due to the fact that 80 per cjnt. of the strikers are Dutchmen. The mine-owners are retaining natives to the number of 200,000 for a week, after which they will be repatriated at the rate of 5000 weekly. The strike is costing the ownwrs £200,000 per week.—Aus.-NJZ. Cable Assn. *
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1922, Page 5
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322STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICAN Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1922, Page 5
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