TERMS REJECTED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 5

TERMS REJECTED.

THE RAND MINING DISPUTE an abortive conference. PROTEST AGAINST MOBILISATION OF TROOPS. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) JOHANNESBURG, July 28. The Rand Mine-owners have offered half-pay during a ten-days' vacation after a year underground, or two years on the surface. They agree to recognise the Trades Union, subject to the conditions that the employers approved of the Unionist constitution, that none of the funds were used for political purposes, that the Trades Hall did not interfere in matters of discipline and management, and that employees were allowed to make representations to their masters apart from the unions. The mine-owners added that any extension of the concessions would involve the closing of a very considerable number of mines. The Hon. F. S. Malan, Minister of Mines, has informed the Labour leaders that the Government regards the concessions of the employers, as very substantial. Four hundred and twenty delegates of the Trade Federation conferred throughout Sunday. The chief obstacles to a settlement were the miners' demand of a minimum wage, and the inclusion of winding in the matter of hours. The Federation finally decided that the concessions offered were inadequate, and a Strike* Committee was formed. A conference of Ministers at Pretoria completed elaborate precautions for maintaining order. „ The Trades Federation ha-s cabled to the Labour Party in Britain, protesting against the mobilisation of troops as in the interests of the mine-owners.