Home Titles The Augusta herald. May 27, Image 19 The Augusta herald. Augusta, Ga. Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. It Is also held that the offer will have a bad effect upon the discipline and work of thoae coolies who retnain. The Association of Mine Managers has adopted a resolution protesting against the arrangements notified for the repatriation of Chinese coolies.
Other meetings have been summoned along the reef for the purpose of recording similar protests. The town council passed a resolu tion declaring that the government is Incurring the risk of producing an economic collapse which will have con sequences most disastrous to Johan nesburg and the whole of South Af rica. The Rand Dally Mall says: "The colonies will bring the Indictment against the present government that the mining Industry has been charged and sentenced without a little of evi dence.
The needs of the colonies should be above party politics, but rolonlal progress Is made subservient to party gain. The resolution further declared that the mines were estimated to have lost fiO per cent of their labor,supply, ow ing to the prevailing uncertainty, and that 50 per cent, more bankrupticies occurred in the Transvaal in March than in the preceding 15 months.
Commercial men, relying upon the good faith of the imperial govern ment's promises, had increased their premises, stocks and staffs. The mines, the resolution concluded, could readjust themselves to the new con ditions If the labor supply were cur tailed, but traders and their employes could not, and the result would be ruin. At a recent meeting of progressives It was decided to issue a manifesto advocating that means should he taken by which the views of self-gov erning colonies should be adequately represented uq the imperial govern ment on a basis distinct from that of political parties, with a view to the establishment of relations between the component parts of the empire based on sincerity, continuity and knowledge.
The manifesto further urges the restriction of the immigra tion of Asiatics except indentured la borers. The Rand Mall has just published an article of a somewhat sensational character on the native unrest in the Transvaal, alleging shat a widespread conspiracy existed among thp natives of the Transvaal and Natal, which was to have resulted in a general ris ing in June, but that this has been abandoned In view of the precautions taken in Natal.
