The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-11
RENEW RAND RIOTS.
STRIKERS CONTINUE REIGN OF
TERROR IN JOHANNESBURG
TROOPS CHARGE MODS.
DEMAND GLADSTONE's RECALL
Governments Effort to Quiet Strike
Disturbance In Gold District inef-
feetive-To Petition King to De-
pose Governor.

johannesburg, July THE settle
ment or the strike among the colo
miners in Rand district, which the gov
eminent arranged with a committee
or strikers on Saturday, has proved in
effective, although comparative order
was preserved over night and Sunday
The mobs reassembied late Sunday
All trains and street cars suspended
service, the crews refusing to work.
No newspapers were able to issue edi-
tons. Additional troops guarded the
Rand club, the scene of serious encoun-
tiers Saturday. A great mob assembled
there, hooting and jeering the troops.
Up to midnight there had been no
serious trouble, but armed police
everywhere were guarding property.
Ask Gladstone Recall.
The recall Of the governor general
of the Union Of South Africa, Viscount
Gladstone. is demanded by the FEEDER
ated Trades Unions. At a meeting of
the federation at Pretoria attended by
1,2OO delegates it was unanimously re-
solved to petition the imperial govern
ment to take this action because the
governor general employed troops to
suppress the strike.
The opinion is very general that the
government has made serious blunders
throughout the present trying situa-
ton. When Gen. Louis Botha, the ex-
premier of the Union of South Africa.
and General Smufc -,,inictor of tbo -,
terror, mines and defense, arrived at
johannesburg they were amazed at
the strikers organization and the des-
perate spirit of the leaders.
Unions Flushed With Success.
The federated unions are flushed
with success and confident that they
are complete masters of the situation.
The trades unionists are ready to
obey any order given them The lead
ers have already commanded the
newspapers to cease publication until
further notice. They count on the
governments fear of the natives.
100000 of whom are locked in the
compounds at the mines.
A great crowd of strikers wearing
red badges surrounded the Carlton
hotel while the terms of settlement
were being arranged. When the
strike leaders announced from the
balcony that a settlement had been
agreed to they were greeted to with
shouts of What about the dead?"
You've been bought"
OufhroaL Nforex C;..> 1onN
Except at the time of the Jameson
raid in 1896 and the outbreak of the
war in 1899 this city has not expert
enced such day of terrorism as Sat-
lrday. The mObs in the business Sec
ton caused less fear than desperados
who were threatening to dynamite the
homes Of the wealthy. All places of |
business were closed and guarded by
troops, while bands of citizens armed
with rifles patroled the residential |
quarter.
The rioting began when strikers |
orced their way into the Rand club, |
whose members are mine owners. |
they demolished everything on the
ground floor. Three times dragons
scattered the mob, but it quickly re-
ormed. The troops fired a vollev
'ver the heads of the rioters and
hen two volleys directly into their
anks. The rioters fed, leaving be-
lind large number Of killed and
Wounded.