THE RAND STRIKES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 August 1913, Page 5

THE RAND STRIKES.

CABLE NEWS

(United Prtu Auoeiation—By Wtetrie Telegraph—Copyright.)

VISCOUNT GLADSTONE'S ACTION. DISCUSSED IN THE COMMONS. (Received Last Night, 10.45 o'clock.) LONDON, August 1., In , the House of Commons, Mr P. L. Outhwaite, Liberal M.P. for Hanley, in moving for a reduction of the 'Colonial Office-vote, declared that the Imperial troops in South Africa had been used tb buttress a brutal and inhuman system. The death-rate among white miners wag three hundred . per thousand yearly. Mr Lewis Harcouxt, Secretary for the Colonies, justified Viscount Gladstone's use of the troops. He had acted promptly, under circumstances of great difficulty, and under -the advice of the responsible Ministers of a self-governing Dominion. - ( Mr Bonair-Law agreed that Viscount Gladstone's taction was necessadry,. ; .. ;• Mr Outhwtiite .thereupon ; withdrew, fra motion;' . ■ ' MINERS' FEDERATION. DEULAK.ES AGAINST A STRIKE. j '(Received'-Last Night,. 10.46 o'cldckl): JOHANNESBURG, August 1. ' The Labour . Federation -passed a resolution that thei ; delegates ~ were, disgusted at the attir tude.... ■ ; -- iV •, 1 * A resolution not to strike was [ carried by 05 votes .to eighteen.The minority wereall extretfffsls?" ',. The miners voted .solidly against a; jjtrike, which would enforce the- ; charge of many workers in the mines.f Owing .to thdir ii:patriation, the natives are causing anxiety. f