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Yours for the Union: Class and Community Struggles in South Africa 264. by Baruch Hirson, Tom Lodge (Foreword by) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (2nd Edition) $ 26.95. Hardcover. $100.00. Paperback. $26.95. View All Available Formats & Editions. Ship This Item — ...
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This collusion between state and capital has happened in many instances in this country's history [including] . a massive strike by the white mineworkers in 1922, which was dealt with by the Smuts government by bringing in the air force, and about 200 people were killed. In 1946, under the leadership of the African Mineworkers Union, 70,000 ...
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During and after the Great War South Africa industrialised. ... but the long-term settlement of relations between capital and labour was not to be achieved until after the general strike of 1922. ... see P. Bonner 'The 1920 Black Mineworkers Strike: A Preliminary Account' in B. Bozzoli (ed.) Labour, Townships and Protest (Johannesburg ...
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State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa; 1922 Event. Rotterdam metal strike ends; 1921 Event. Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails; 1921 Event. British coal miners goes on strike; 1920 Event. Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits; 1919 Event. Boston's police force forms ...
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The 1922 strike produced the slogan: 'Workers of the World Unite and Fight for a White South Africa.' However, there was an ambiguity in the interpretation of that slogan, with many workers believing (correctly) that the strike was a defence against the mineowners' assault on their standard of living.
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October 6, 1919. The U.S. Army takes control of Gary, Indiana, and martial law is declared after steelworkers clash with police. The steelworkers are on strike to secure the right to hold union ...
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View History of South Africa.pdf from HIST 216 at Lafayette College. What were the formative experiences in his childhood that led to his politics. He experiences black south africans going from
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When the Union of South Africa went of the international gold standard in 1933, an unequalled and irrepressible surge soon swept away the ills of the depression of 1931-32. ... In 1913 there was a general strike, the effect of which was felt at the Geduld and Springs Mines as well. ... to be followed directly by the gold mine workers. This ...
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South Africa 1922 Synopsis In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
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Shaheen Khan is a South African socialist, part of the Political Platform, who have recently split from the South African RMG (Revolutionary Marxist Group.) ... Even White workers were violently crushed in the miners' strike of 1922. ... the apartheid-capitalist state brutally suppressed the 1946 mineworkers strike and crushed the mass ...
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1922-03-10 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa; 1926-08-22 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa; 1939-07-09 A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa
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1913 Mineworkers went on a strike to get management to recognise union rights. The strike changed the nature of politics in South Africa and the state deemed it necessary to ensure that mining production continued at all costs 1916 Compensation for pulmonary TB was introduced 1920 Rand Refinery started 1921 - 1922
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acting minister of Justice in South Africa met with the strike committee on 19 and 22 June 1913 but was unwilling to concede to their demands. On 20 June, police arrested 5 strike leaders. Hundreds of strikers marched on the jail where the government held the leaders to demand their release. Mounted police protected
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the South African Mine Workers' Union (MWU) in 1913, this organisation participated during the first two decades of the twentieth century in the turbulent age of industrial strife in South Africa. It soon gained a reputation as a militant union during the bloody mining strikes of 1907, 1913 and 1922.5 Besides duels
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The spark to the 1922 upheaval occurred in the wake of earlier strikes during 1907, 1913 and 1914, particularly because bitter memories would have persisted regarding the two dozen or more workers killed in these clashes with police and military units. The mine owners were determined to cut their white worker wage costs.
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The most well-known early labor revolt in South Africa began on March 10, 1922, when white mine workers struck in a violent confrontation with the mine owners and later with government troops. The strike in the rapidly expanding gold mining industry was precipitated by the owners' attempts to take away the privileged position of the white ...
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South Africa receives League of Nations mandate to administer former German colony, South-West Africa. 1921: Communist Party of South Africa established (later--after 1953--the South African Communist Party). 1922: Army quells miners' strike, killing 214. 1923: Natives Urban Areas Act authorizes segregation in urban areas.
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10 facts about the miners' strike. Russia conquered Crimea in 1783 under Catherine the Great. Rather, it refers to the size of the planchet and its effect on the outer border, especially on the obverse. 1. Found inside - Page 78In the case of such strikes, however, every demand that is lodged is ...
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Discovered Cape of Good Hope in South Africa Jan 9, 1488. ... Gold Discovered on the Witwatersrand Period: Jan 1, 1899 to Jan 1, 1902. Second Boer War british win May 31, 1910. Union of South Africa Jan 1, 1911 ... African Mine Workers Strike Aug 1, 1946.
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during the first three months of 1922, at a time when south africa was gripped by a severe economic depression, 22 000 white employees working in the witwatersrand's coal and gold mines,...
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The 1913 Mineworkers Strike South African History Online. ... Research Miners' Strike: South Africa 1922 St. James . In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellionsometimes known as the Rand Revoltthat pitted the white miners against the mine owners ...
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General J.C. Smuts, a former minister of. mines in South African and the current Minister of Defense and Finance and the. acting minister of Justice in South Africa met with the strike committee on 19. and 22 June 1913 but was unwilling to concede to their demands. On 20 June, police arrested 5 strike. leaders.
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ORDER ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES, 1913-1922 T. Dunbar Moodie Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York Our story begins with two gold mining strikes on the Rand; one of white workers, the other of black. The first has become known as the "general strike of 1913." Since Elaine Katz (1976) has
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Soon, labor issues came to the fore. In 1920, some 71,000 black mineworkers went on strike in protest against the spiraling cost of living, but the strike was quickly put down by isolating the compounds where the migrant workers were housed. Another threat to government came from white workers.
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Nonetheless, the white working class of South Africa suffered a major defeat in 1922, even though the action had been confined mainly to miners, and mostly on the Rand. This boded ill for the Labour Party, which emerged from the strike with little glory, for the miners who were crushed, and for the Communist Party which was reduced to a small sect.
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"The Marikana miners' strike or Lonmin strike was a wildcat strike at a mine owned by Lonmin in the Marikana area, close to Rustenburg, South Africa in 2012. resulted in the deaths of 44 people, the majority of whom were striking mineworkers killed on 16 August
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Khoikhoi herders move into South Africa: 300 - 1,000 AD : Bantu-speaking farmers move into South Africa: ... Chinese indentured laborers used in gold mines : 1910 : Union of South Africa established : 1911 ... African mineworkers strike. 1922 : Rand Revolt : 1923 : Natives (Urban Areas) Act provides for urban segregation and African influx ...
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'Urban Activists and Rural Struggles: Communists in Algeria and South Africa, 1920s-1930s,' African Studies, 66, 2-3, August-December 2007, 295-319. By Allison Drew 'Communism in Africa,' in Stephen A. Smith, ed., Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism, Oxford: OUP, 2014, 285-302.
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Jan 13, 2022A general strike called for 6 March 1922 led to open insurrection when workers laid siege to police stations and other public institutions, sabotaged electricity supply and derailed trains. The heavily-armed strikers soon took control of towns such as Brakpan and Benoni. After some dilly-dallying, Jan Smuts declared martial law.
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Pre-Crisis Phase (May 31, 1910-June 13, 1913): South Africa formally achieved its independence from Britain on May 31, 1910.General Louis Botha formed a government as prime minister on May 31, 1910. Parliamentary elections were held on September 15, 1910, and the South African Party (SAP) headed by Louis Botha and James Hertzog won 67 out of 130 seats in the House of Assembly.
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May 10, 1913—strike by white South African gold miners begins May 16, 1910-Creation of the U.S Bureau of Mines May 17, 1986—TWA flight attendants strike ends May 21, 1945—Hawaii Employee Relations Act passes law extending bargaining rights for ag workers, called Little Wagner Act May 23, 1977—Abood v. Detroit Board of Education decided
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The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot. Child coal miners with mules in Gary, West Virginia in 1908. Working conditions were brutal for coal miners, and unionization was violently suppressed ...
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TIMELINE 1900 TO THE PRESENT. South Africa has 60 million people. About 80% of South Africans are Black Africans (48 million). During the apartheid years (1948 to 1994), the Black people lived on only 13% of the land. The Whites, Indians and Coloureds (multiracial ethnic group native to South Africa) making up 20% of the population lived on 87% ...
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The Nigerian Trade Union Congress, which came into being only three years ago, now boasts a membership of 500,000 and 56 affiliated unions, covering transport, mining, dock-labour, seamen, public works, government employees, etc.". The Fifth Pan-African Congress (PAC) was convened later in October 1945 in Manchester.
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In 1914, the Union of South Africa was four years old; its military only two. British supremacy in the South African War (1899-1902) provoked different responses from English and Afrikaner white South Africans to World War I. Prime Minister Botha, seeing global war as a chance for South African expansion, suppressed the 1914 Afrikaner rebellion ...
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John Xavier Merriman (15 March 1841 - 1 August 1926) was the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. In 1908 his South African Party together with the Afrikaner Bond won control of the Assembly and he served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony for two years, from 1908 until the ...
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A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers ... relentless militarist who had used martial law to crush the 1913 white miners strike and deport its leaders without trial; he was the imposer of martial law again in 1922, and drowned the white miners strike again in blood both in pitched military assault and ...
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The South African Mine Workers' Union, or MWU, was one of the most prominent white trade unions of 20th-century South Africa and active in one of the country's key industries, namely gold mining. In the aftermath of the violent 1922 strike, the union's executive was bureaucratised, which left the MWU
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Dowd v. United Mine Workers, 235 F. 1. The case then came to trial on the third amended complaint and answers of the defendants. The trial resulted in a verdict of $200,000 for the plaintiffs, which was trebled by the court, and to which was added a counsel fee of $25,000, and interest to the amount of $120,600, from July 17, 1914, the date of ...
Get priceThis article remedies this yawning gap by presenting primary and secondary evidence which demonstrates the centrality of labor time in South African gold mines since the discovery of gold in 1886....
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