UNION OFFICIAL’S FATE
SHOT DEAD AT WHEEL OF CAR OUTRAGE IN JOHANNESBURG. INDICATIONS OF RACIAL VENDETTA. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, June 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Johannesburg correspondent says that Mr Charles Harris, general secretary of the Mineworkers’ Union (whose death was reported yesterday), was shot dead at the wheel of his car as he drove out of a garage in the centre of the city. A miner has been arrested. Police took possession of a pamphlet purporting to have been issued by a member of the Mineworkers’ Bond, a rival Afrikaans union, in which reference was made to the “cause of humanity.” Police are escorting the Mineworkers’ Union president, Mr J. A. Vandenburgh, after telephone threats to his wife that he would be the “next to get a bullet.” There has recently been internal trouble in the union, from which two miners were ejected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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145UNION OFFICIAL’S FATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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