SOUTH AFRICAN LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1922, Page 8

SOUTH AFRICAN LABOR.

REVOLUTIONARY PROPOSALS. By Telegraph.—Press As an.—-Copyright. Capetown, Feb. 6. Fifteen Nationalist and Labor members of Parliament in Pretoria received a deputation transmitting the strikers’ resolutions demanding a republic. Mr. Ross, chairman of the Transvaal Nationalist Party, said the party would do nothing unconstitutional, because for one thing they were only partly armed and would ne shot down like dogs. Other Nationalist speakers said they had had enough of a republic by violence.

Ultimately the meeting appointed a committee of three Nationalists and two Laborites to consider the deputation’s request.

A Johannesburg message states that a. big meeting in the Town Hall strongly condemned Sunday’s republican reaction, speakers exhorting the strikers to stick to the economic issue.

Mr. Boydell, leader of the Labor Party, disclaims any sympathy with Waterston’s revolutionary proposals, and declares that in any case a Nationalist republic would be a social and economic disaster. At the same time he declares that the policy’ of the Government is mainly responsible for the present situation.

Mr. Barlow, the only Labor member for the Free .State, also repudiates Waterson’s tactics, and calls on all workers of the Free State to support the constitutional authority in any efforts to put down a revolution.

Other members here also repudiate the resolution. It is reported in Pretoria that the conference between the Premier and the Industrial Federation has been broken off, and no agreement reached. A REPUBLIC DEMANDED. Capetown, Feb. 6. The political character of the strike is evidenced by’ the fact that a big meeting of strikers enthusiastically adopted a resolution proposed by Mr. Waterston, a member of the Assembly, affirming that the time had come to put an end to the dominance of the Chamber of Mines and other financiers, and that therefore members of Parliament now in Pretoria be urged to proclaim a republic and establish a provincial Government.—Aqs.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FAILURE OF EXTREMISTS. Capetown, Feb. 6. The proposed concentration of commandos this morning for the purpose of pulling out those employed in essential services proved a fiasco. Very few members of the commandos assembled and the demonstration* fell flat. As the result the tension has been relieved and the authorities regard Wrterston, his republican resolution and his army of militants as discredited.