New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
Dynamite Used on Rail DAD
TraCk-FrOnt Wheels of
Locomotive Blown OF.
LEADERS ARRESTED
ON SEDITION CHAkGE
Citizen Force Called Out to Pre-
serve Order-Martial Law
To Be Proclaimed.

uation since Thursday night. when the
railway strike seemed to be a hasco
The strike leaders. seeing that the
movement had hung fire, appealed TO
the johannesburg Trades Federation
to-day. and the federation applied
pressure in such manner as TO bring
things to an immediate head. As
result. the situation tonight is one Of
utmost gravity
Dynamite is being used ny the strik-
ors in the territory adjacent to johann
ncsburg. An effort was made to-day
TO blow up the Cape Mail between Den
YER and Jeorge Goch. Nobody on
board the train vas injured, but the
front wheels of the pilot engine were
blown off and the track seriously dam
aged. Another explosion occurred on
the railway tonight between JONAH
ncsburg and Cleveland.
An unsuccessful attempt TO blow up
a train was made to-day between Wit
poortje and Liupaardsvlei, three Sticks
of dynamite with detonator attached
having been discovered by a foreman
track layer just before the arrival OF
A crowded passenger train from Zee
rust The dynamite had been fixed In
such a way that its explosion was in
eyitable from the impact of a train.
To Fight the Federation.
The government is credited with an
intention to fight the Trades Federation
to a finish. 1t is reported that martial
law Will be proclaimed at Pretoria to-
morrow.
The principal strike leaders including
Toutsma, secretary, and Nleld' as
sistant secretary. Of the Railwaymen
Society; Waterson, secretary OF the
South Africa Labor party, and conn
Wade. A Labor member of Germiston
Town Council. who was prominent III
the last Rand strike, were arrested on
charges OF sedition to-day. All OF
them were held without bail. Tonight
other leaders were taken into custody,
and at a late hour. following hur-
riedly called meeting Of the Trades
Federation. the federation threatened
to call a general strike unless the men
detained were liberated.
Three proclamstions were gazetted
in Pretoria to-day. calling out the citl-
zen forces throughout the Trarsvaal
and the citizens reserves in many dis
trjcts. and prohibiting the sale or
TRANSFORMATION OF arms in the districts
Of Pretoria, Middleburg and Witwaters-
rand.
There is much apprehension here over
tho proposed mass meeting which mas
been called for Sunday in Market
Square. Johannesburg, the people re-
calling the fatal consequences of SIM
liar gathering in the square during
July's strike.
Miners Burning for Revenge
Mr. Mason. leader of the Trades
Federation. addressing A gathering OF
strikers here to-day, declared that the
o,tire railway service would be stopped
,o-uorrcv. but that il was not intend
OH IN call out the miners. The miners,
: he said. were burning for revenge for
I last JuIy's bloodshed. but that their
revenge would come later
The Rand cold storage plant when
srnplies meat for majority or the
natives employed in the mines is re-
Worried 10 have only one weeks supply
| an hand. If Johanna sburg IS cut or
/ from communication the existing sup
,Jies Of aour and other provisions are
! fvnected 80 last only ten days Prices
Of food are already rising
! !, is reDorted that nine hundred ma
,;.ee hrcle out Of a compound at ia
! cerefontein. Orange state to-day anu
/ ss,,tdad no town. Ii IL SAID that ntty
"r The natives were killed and that
,here we're several casualties amon6
the whites.
Come Town. Jan. Am encouraging
feature of the railway strike SITUATION 10
! Tho continued loyalty OF the cape ran
,rav men and the refusal OF the opera''"s
s,a0 NJ the Durham branch OF the Nal"'
railroad TO Join the strike. IL was INC
refusal Of the Cape railway employees 10
obey the Johannesburg Trades federdlioh
| which was The main cause for the ulu-
mate collapse of the miners strike III
3uly. 1t is hoped that similar resu''
xul follow in the present instance. ou'
delegates from the Federation who are
coming here and others who are going 70
Durham will do their utmost to spreau
disanection. The feelin. is held here tha'
the government ought 10 prohibit the
mass meeting OF strikers which has been
called in Johannesburg for sunday, bu
nothing in this direction has yet beer
done.
All reports received from Natal show
that the railways are running without in
terruption. Reports Of rioting al Jasers
fontcin are exaggerated. There were dis
orders there to-day, however. in which
five natives were killed and two Europeans
injured.
BloemfonteIn Jan. 2.-Ihe raIlroa
strike situation suddenly became wors
here to-day. Every man in the railroa
workshops laid down his tools an
walked out. The railroad yards and sta
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