The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-18
RENEW RAND RIOTS
STRIKERS CONTINUE REIGN OF
TERROR IN JOHANNESBURG
TROOPS CHARGE Moss.
DEMAND GLADSTONE'S RECALL
Governments Effort to Quiet Strike
disturbance In Gold District lnef.
feetive-To Petition King to De-
pose Governor.

johannesburg, July THE settle
ment OF the strike among the GOLD
miners in Rand district, which the gov
eminent arranged with a committee
Oh strikers on Saturday, has proved In
eHective, although comparative order
was preserved over night and Sunday
Ihe mobs reassembled late Sunday
All Trains and street cars suspended
service, the crews refusing to work.
NO newspapers were able to issue edi-
tions. Additional troops guarded the
Rand club, the scene of serious encoun-
ters Saturday. A great mob assembled
lhere, hootiug and jeering the troops.
Up to midnight there had been no
serious trouble, but armed police
everywhere were guarding property.
Ask Gladstone Recall.
Inc recall OF the governor general
OF the Union of South Africa, Viscount
GlSdstone, is demanded by the FEEDER.
ated Trades Unions. AT a meeting of
the federation at Pretoria attended by
l,z0O delegates it was unanimously re-
soived to petition the imperial govern
ment 70 take this action because the
governor general employed troops to
suppress the strike.
The opinion is very general that the
government has made serious plumbers
throughout the present trying situa-
tlon. When Gen. Louis Botha, the ex-
premier of the Union of South Africa.
and General SHUTS, minister of the in
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 thew
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 settlement had been
agreed to they were greeted to with
shoutss of What about the dead?"
You've been bought
Outbreak Worst Since 1899.
EYPQnf of hn |
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. I
Ion caused less fear than desperados
Who were threatening to dynamite the |
ZONES of the wealthy. All places of
BUSINESS were closed and guarded nv {
roops, while bands of citizens armed 1
With rifles patroled the residential {
quarter.
The rioting began when strikers t
orced their way into the Rand club. b
whose members are mine owners s
hey demolished everything on the
round floor. Three times dragons 4
catered the mob, but it quickly re-
ormed The troops fired a vollev 6
yer the heads of the rioters and
hen two volleys directly into their
anks. The rioters fed. leaving be-
ind a large number Of killed and
Ounded