and engineering journal . the present strike, but the older and more experiencedmen who have been promoted above minimum rates wouldbe badly hit, and it behoves them to take this possibilityinto consideration very seriously. wages to the strike funds—75 per mtribution to be utilised for the i I i rm a fighl ing fund. • The Council of Action : Five Arrests Effected. The ] fficial ann c ction in r- . trike. It was learned onda\ thai five men had b< ted on charges of inciting i ? public violence. Their nam- - inErnest Fisher. these men re mi
and engineering journal . the present strike, but the older and more experiencedmen who have been promoted above minimum rates wouldbe badly hit, and it behoves them to take this possibilityinto consideration very seriously. wages to the strike funds—75 per mtribution to be utilised for the i I i rm a fighl ing fund. • The Council of Action : Five Arrests Effected. The ] fficial ann c ction in r- . trike. It was learned onda\ thai five men had b< ted on charges of inciting i ? public violence. Their nam- - inErnest Fisher. these men re mi I thi Mine \\ be number who were fined and sus-pended from office owinj r participation in thespreading of the I- -trike in February last year. Alter fchej had been debarred from office in their union, tlie\ identified themselves with what is known as the Counci] oJ Acti-ai ; all the men bi ing understood to hold very stronglj fco the direct action pobcy it more conciliatory methods of dealing with industrial The Kleinfontein Power Station, where work has been resumed. General Strike Vetoed. The resolution in favour of a general strike which wascarried at the Johannesburg Town Hall meeting duringWednesday morning came before the Augmented Executiveof the Federation in the afternoon as a recommendation fromthe rank and file. Such an extension of the strike has repeatedly been urgedupon the central authority by local strike committees amiother bodies, but the Executive has always taken a standagainst action in this direction, on various grounds. On Wednesday the whole question was gone into, and theresolution passed at the Town Hall was carefully the Executive declared its decision in the followingofficial communication : — That the Executive are of opinion that no advantagewould be gained by calling a general strike at the present juncture. The Executve went further into the question of how bestthe assistance of other workers could be en
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