STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
PLEA FOR SETTLEMENT APPEAL BY THE PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 12, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, Feb. 11. General Smuts has issued a statement again emphasising the urgent necessity of the immediate resumption of work in the gold mines. He declares a final settlement must be left to Parliament after an impartial inquiry, and lie appeals to the industrial federation to call off the strike on a basis of the recently submitted terms, the miners in the meantime to resume. The Government will thereupon appoint an impartial board to review all the issues. General Smuts adds that as it is likely large numbers will -be unable to find immediate re-employment the Government is preparing schemes for employing some thousands on public works.— Reuter.
ANSWER TO THE APPEAL. MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. Received Feb. 13, 12.15 a.m. Capetown, Feb. 11. The Chamber of Mines, in response to the Premier’s appeal, will open the mines on Monday, engaging men on the Chamber’s present terms, subject to alteration >by an impartial Government Commission. Mr. Thompson, president of the Industrial Federation, has instructed all strikers not to return to work pending the decision ofi the federation’s augmented executive. An open air meeting to-night expressed disfavor of General Smuts’ proposals.— Reuter. FIGHT TO A FINISH. Capetown, Feb. 10. Mr. Thompson, president of the Federation, speaking at Johannesburg, stated that the position summed up is a fight to a finish. He appealed to strikers not to declare a general strike till the Federation was certain of its success. Two more leaders have been arrested on a charge of incitement to violence. MEN WANT TO WORK. Capetown, Feb. 10. There is a disposition among a large body of the men to return to work provided a reasonable compromise is obtained, but the militant section in the East Rand is advocating stronger measures. A mass meeting demanded a general strike. The police promised to protect miners returning to work.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1922, Page 5
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