LABOR IN AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 5

LABOR IN AFRICA.

THE GERMISTON INCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Capetown, Feb. 2. The action of the Germiston strike committee is now being considered by the General Council of the Miners’ Union at Germiston. Consequently the visit to General Smuts has been postponed, pending the decision of the council. Meanwhile the new position thus raised has ousted every other phase of the strike. The announcement that the Genniston strike committee intended interviewing General Smuts caused much excitement among the extremist section of the strikers, it being interpreted as a desertion from the Federation. It transpires that when the committee was sitting last night a hostile crowd df miners rushed the offices, denounced the committee for selling them to General Smuts, and kept them prisoners until they promised to abandon the intention to go to Pretoria. Feeling runs high. A meeting of strikers adopted a resolution asking the Federation to declare a general sympathetic strike on Saturday. The coal strikers at Witbank asked the Federation to interview General Smuts with a view to ending the coal trouble.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRAMS RESTARTED. THE MINES THREATENED. Received Feb. 3, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, Feb. 2. The trams have restarted at Johannesburg. This makes power again available for business places and industries. Some of the mines are threatened with flooding and the management is making efforts to secure the necessary services to prevent it. —Reuter Service.