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Rand Strikers Trials Under Smuts Government Exposed
An August 1922 report details the Rand strikers' treason trials in Johannesburg under the Smuts government. It describes a special court, Roman Dutch law, and harsh sentences including ten years hard labor for Erasmus, framed as a brutal class crackdown. The piece calls on workers worldwide, including Australia, to support the Rand strikers and resist capitalist repression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defence Committee
Rand
Cap‘tallat
Ling
Workers of Australia
South Africa
Smuts
Johannesburg
Lawrence Murray Sanders
Anteries
Willem Latergan
Iise
Inews
Nuts
Dlaza
Union of
Rhodesia
Ceylon
Cape of Good Hope
Guch Taw
Tom Mann
England
Peter Erasmus
JR. W. Hall
Imperial Army
Mr. Thompson
South African Industrial Federation
General Smuts
Ross
Erasmus
Thompson
Boksburg
Chamber of Mines
Labor
Italy
Germany
France
Belgium
Jugo-Slavia
America