THE RAND SITUATION.
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government preparations 1 CONTINUE. | POSITION OF RAILWAYMEN. (Received Last Night, 11.40 o clock.) , JOHANNESBURG, July 31. The (Government's preparations are being continued. ■ • Twenty thousand burghers will be mobilised, if necessary. Germiston, which is an important railway junction, will be turned, into: an arsenal, including heavy ord- • nance, machine guns, and much ammunition. An important conference of all unions begins at Johannesburg to-day. Many railwaymen are beginning to. fear the results of extreme action, as an illegal strike on the Government railways will mean that the strikers will forfeit their pensions and seniority. V ■ The would-be railway strikers are demanding from the Trades Federation a guarantee that a fixed condition of any settlement will be the restoration of the railwaymen's privileges which would be forfeited, by • striking. ' v The railwaymen at Salt River ana Towns River have resolved agajnst a general strike without a ballot being taken. , - Home of fhe workers are asbntg•that Jtr'Askwithi the BSitish trial Commissioner, be asked to arbitrate. Mr Poutsman, secretary of ,the Railwaymen's Society,. states that the railwaymen have totally dissociated themselves from the revolutionary propaganda. Consequently they have secured the overthrow of the Secret Committee formed on, Sunday, with absolute revolutionary powers. The Trades Federation \ Executive and the railwaymen's Executive would, he said, conduct future negotiations jointly. . Evidence given before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the riots showed that a thousand revolvers, I many rifles, and 18.000 rounds of ammunition were looted from gunsmiths' shops on the night of July 4th. The' police arid troops were subjected to two., hours' fusillade, chiefly from hooligans; also snipers from buildings. The Socialist leaders, earlier in the evening, incited the mob to shoot and burn.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 August 1913, Page 5
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286THE RAND SITUATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 August 1913, Page 5
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