THE LABOUR RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 July 1913, Page 5

THE LABOUR RIOTS.

CABLE NEWS

(United Brest Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. SPEAKER REFUSES DISCUSSION. TELEGRAM FROM LORD GLADSTONE. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) LONDON, July 9. The Speaker of the House of Commons declined to allow the Johannesburg riot to be discussed as a matter of urgency. He ruled that the Imperial troops were retained in South Africa at the Government's request. Several members complained of the lack of information received from Viscount Gladstone. Mr Lewis Harcourt read Viscount Gladstone's telegram. He added that the troops had not fired except when the disorder was most serious. Some of the deaths were due to the rioters' indiscriminate shooting.

THE NATIVE TROUBLE. CONFLICT WITH POLICE. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock. 1 ) JOHANNESBURG, July 9. The .natives have resumed work at the Meyer and Charlton mines. The natives at the Village Main reef refused to work and stoned the. police, who fired over their heads and drove them back to their quarters. They subsequently returned to work. A similar trouble occurred at the Village Deep mine, but was settled. It is believed that the native trou. ble arose over the stHke-breakers' claim for three years' wages and compensation, aggregating £60,000. AMONG THE KILLED.

I CHIEFLY MINERS. POLICE MAKING ARRESTS. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) JOHANNESBURG, July 9. ..Those killed in the riots included Mr Bulucs, a member of a Hamburg firnv;_Forbes, a municipal accountant; Rosenberg, a theatre proprietor; Hertzbeg, a pianist; Vindermere, '■' a Hackett, & dentist ■ Viera; McLoney, Labuschagne, Coleman, Thompson, Benson, Zihvyke, and Vestagrun, miners; Wood, a railwayman; and Cook, a brickmaker. The police are making numerous arrests in connection with tbe fiote including incendiary speaL...s at va' nous meetings. Those arrested include Crawford, a Socialist loader. A Court was held at the Fort Prison, because it was deemed unwisr ,: :r.:?-i tha p-'sonerg to the Ojurt, ihc "Star" propviatarr Ji.id received repeated threats to destroy thrii works and buildings. A bore-hole was discovered in the foundations, large enough to contain, dy-v namite to wreck the premises. . " Tha Transvaal Provincial Council has passed a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the Johannes-, burg victims. ' '

A Labour member gave notice pf a resolution condemning the Government for depriving the people of the u ljr ij l free s P eecn an <* the- right to hold public meetings,, also requesting the wall -of Viscount Gladstone an? . imperial troops. . Th-5 Federated Trades', t/sf ous executive has decided to' hold mas? meetings throughout the country, including Johannesburg, on Jul*- Vltb, to demand Viscount Gladstone's recall, b.n the ground that he authorised the use of troops in an attempt to supj)l l 6es free speech and public assembly, which resulted in the indisettttiinate shooting of defenceless men, women and children.

MEETING AT CAPETOWN

DEMANDS RECALL OF LORD GLADSTONE. ! ('Received Last Night, ""9.30 o'clock.7 CAPETOWN, July 9. A meeting of workers condemned Viscount Gladstone for using the troops in an industrial dispute, and dema.iided-his recall: NATIVES STRIKE FOR INCREASED PAY. (Received July 9, 11 a.m.) . JOHANNESBURG, July. 8. Natives at the Village Main Reef, and City and Suburban Mines, have struck for more pay. .Troops are being held in readiness. .Many natives, in imitation of the white strikers, are wearing 'red rosettes. They erroneously believe thai the whites jstruek for more pay and got it. The native labour leaders are endeavouring to induce the natives to resume work. A thousand natives in the Meyer and Charlton Mines broke out of the compound, but returned when troops appeared. However, they refused to descend the mines; The situation ..among the whites is improving. The strikers are resuming, and banks and shops.are re-open-ing. The newspapers are being pubI lished.