LABOUR UNREST.
AFRICAN- MINERS THREATEN STRIKE. tty Oablo— Preas AnociaMon—Copyright. Australian eud N.Z. Cabin Association. CAPETOWN, May 11. The General Council of the South African Mine Workers’ Union decided to take a strike ballot in connection with the report of Mr Justice De Villiers, who acted as mediator at the Mines Conciliation Board, and who favoured the miners’ application for an increase in wages by 20 per cent., retrospective to the beginning of last October. The mine owners opposed the granting of the increase. Non-unionists will be allowed to participate in the ballot. Union officials are also instructed to get into touch with the engine drivers, and consider means for a reduction of workers’ unions, with a view to forming a federation of white employees in. the mining industry.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 13 May 1925, Page 11
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129LABOUR UNREST. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 13 May 1925, Page 11
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