SOUTH AFRICAN LABOR.
A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. JT RIKERS BESIEGE A BUILDING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgtt. Capetown. March 6. A general sympathetic strike has been fixed, to start to seven o’clock on Tuesday morning. There is, considered to be little prospect of the appeal for a general strike proving successful. The Communist flag was displayed at the Trades Hall. Strikers besieged the building and refused to leave it until the conference of executives of the Federation and Trades Unione declared a general strike. A PICKETING OUTRAGE.
Capetown, March 6. Two hundred men presented themselves for signing on this morning at Johannesburg. Active picketing is in progress. One man returning from the Crown mines was shot in the leg. The extremist section is growing violent in sts demand for a general strike. The joint executives of the Labor Federation and the Trades Unions have dehided to call a general sympathetic strike without fixing the date. Tne conference rejected the Federation’s decision, which was in favor of faking a ballot on the strike question.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1922, Page 5
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170SOUTH AFRICAN LABOR. Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1922, Page 5
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