Ruth First's scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from 1948. Many articles are unauthored

First, Ruth

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; I# THE TBANSVAllL ':I iueltStioncampaiga uct their own eldon- _C_* - - .. - . . . I  8 L-. , , T r .  S.A. DELEGATES -> , TO I Chamber of M i n 5 a n . t  F ~ D O M I  Afford Higher Wages', CONFERENCE m;,.. ' '- 4 ;>.g May Uay Call For 11 "POLICE RECORD" I I jj, ;l .-v l.' l = .RP 1% 'Irm 'h. l l h  DWt U U I  np th. h u e  I di?d FACE BllTDIl CBllEEE 1 ..a3rsofmearw B the wholarnle 1 I , Lawrence I . - . - -  -- l Drs. Dadoo And Naickel- .Call For United Front JWAWNEBBURG. a d  for 8 hacmtte people's lront Q! LU sections of the A ,P*Wrm te *m me ,v*, of t,ba h son* M,,, m made lw Dm. Y, luI, D&&@ mid G M. Naicbr, W L s s  d VransvMI and Naial IbbtP11s. after thae release f r m  prlsou l& week The 1880.~  srid Dr. Dsdoo at a &ing h% Jwhsnnesburg, Dr. Dadeo said the nilalkn tW as;os%lve Reslstanee Caunelds Guvernment's use of t$a &m- W$ rXImgrwser" The Passive muclist bogy--sM ite W@ h R e s s 6 b a c ~  Osunell had acted1 vthe~ Eountries--\rm arme d $M @ e . ~ 3 ~  1% kmmarl ly  suswnding S l g g 8 b t  WUhM c r & ~ d ~  05 NSWW. E W Y I  Vt3.WSBEB. Poor Man's . Lawyer NEW STATUS FOR LEGAL AID JOHANNESBURG. The Pretorla Legal Aid Bureau -the poor man's lawyer-is about to end its existence as an inde- pendent body run by an elected committee. From now onwards it will function under the control of the Transvaal Law Society. "This is the result of M.P.s not taking sufficient trouble to know what the Welfare Organisation Bill was all about," said Mrs. M. M. M. Pypers, secretary of the Pretoria Bureau. (The new status of Legal Aid is determined by this Act.) As a protest against the Pretoria Bureau Committee's "becofning a.n entirely futile body," Mrs. Pypers. who ha5 been its secretary ever since its fornlation five years ago. has resigned. She told The Guardian the Govcknment apparently pre- ferred not to have an indepen- dent Legal Aid Bureau helping people to stand up for their rights. The recently passed Act stipu- lates tha t  Law Societies in all the provinces shall determine the conditions under which the Bureau may operate. Under the new constitution drawn up for the Pretorla Legal Aid, the elected committee is replaced by one con- sisting of representatives of various societies. the Government and the  Law Society, plus f o u ~  co-opted members. There are no elected members a t  all. The  Law Society has the final say on all Bureau matters. It has the power to close down the Bureau a t  ane time. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS "Without a n  elected committee, the Bureau will operate behind closed doors," commented Mrs. Pypers. She added tha t  in the past the Law Society had never taken any interest in the Bureau, and had even refused to appoint representatives to its committee. It .considered Legal Aid "a nuisance". MALAN SEES THL IRON CURTAIN JOHANNESBURG. The Union Cabinet last week treated itself to the first showing in South Africa of the anti-soviet film "The Iron Curtain". The fiIm wgs shown at the Prime Minister's Pretoria residence, Libertas. Wives of the Cabinet Ministers also attended. Up to the time of going to press their reactions had not yet been made public, but i t  is understood Dr. Mdan is due to make an anti- Soviet speech soon. I WILL SPOORBOND BE RECOGNISED? JOHANNESBURG The Spoorbond, Nationalist- sponsored organisation of railway employees, has begun to angle for official Government recogni- I titbn, as ,was  $predicted in The Guardian some weeks ago. The Minister of Transport met the I executive of the association last 1 week. / The six staff associations on , the  ailw way will probably - I JOHANNESBURG. One day last week a news- nooL'GAN'SM 1 vendor selling papers outside the Central News Agency in Germiston was attacked by a group of young men. After giving him a blow they seized his papers, tore up copies of English-medium news- papers and scattered them in the street. Then they left. Af rikaans- medium newspapers were not damaged in any way. -- m strenuously oDDose recoenitian of to submit the dispute over a new I ~pmrbond, wkch wants recogni- agreement to arbitrstlon. Uon as the only trade union of The Arbitrstion Board's &cfsion railway workers. Some years ago will be final mid incorporated into the Spoorbond refused meomition the new agreement, to come into as the representative of only one force for twelve months from grqup of r a i l w o r k  within the September this year. Federal C&sults.tive Committee, Three prominent barristers are and was then replaced in the ratl- to be asked to act as arbitrators. way sa tup by another body cater- ing for the unskilled, ungraded railway employees. AFRICAN MUNICIPAL WORKERS MEET JOHrnNIFMIURG. Twenty-four delemtes from Reei towns and 148 from Johan- nesburg compounds, work depots. townships and municipal hosteh l attended a conference of the Trcnsvsal Municipal Milean I Workers' Union on Juhe 27 hear the demands submittad. tb the Wage Bwrd by their trq union. The meeting resolved M S W t  an intensive membership campaign. and to ssk all local authorities to operate the "sap order" system for trade unlon subscnptiom . 1 1 TVL. GARMENT l STRIKE AVERTED JOHANNESBURG. A strike in the garment indus- try has been averted as a result of m wpeement reached between the j Garment Workers' Union and the iTrmSvaal Clothing Manufacturers I. I TLC. Protests At Nomination Of De Vries JOHANNESBURG. The Trades and Labour Counfl has wired the coi~ference of the International Labour Organisation in San Francisco protesting against the nomination of Mr. J. de V e s  as a member of the governing body. I t  has suggested Mr. Jeny  Caider, president of the Council, as a & u t h  African member. Trade unionists here are asking whom Mr. De Vries represents at the '~ .~ .O.  conference He holds flo official post in  the South African trade unron movement. He is at present a welfare officer for a private firm. Repo&s reached Johannesburg this week to the effeat that Mr. De Vries was finding his way on to several important I.L.O. commit- tees. He was being nominatad by the le&r of the south Afncw delegation, Brigadier Buchanan ~ e s s r s ,  W. Kalk ,and Griffiths have lodged objections to these appin tme~ts .  AFRICANS IN PUBtfC 11 SERMCE I ammxmsam. In a memorandum ba the Pubqa Services Commission, the Insti- tute of Itace ~l&f,it)ns U&%% bhe employment at -re Afri~Mls in the public services. In  p d c u I a r  it suggests Africans em ioyed in w, otpattmmta ol Affntru, Pats anrl Telegmphg &atice, Social Weliar?, Labour, ,lice and Pilsons, HBitlf,h and ailways. The latest figures of Non-Euro- rans in the Public Service-for ~ l y  194S--shows there are none in lministrittive, clerical, profes- ~nal ,  or technical divisions. In e General Division, including 1st offices and the NUive Affairs ~pclftanent, there are 249 >loureds, 66 Indians and 275 'ricans. fn the Palice there are 4 Colou~ds, 136 Indians, and 372 Africans. In the Prisons bpartment there art! 21 ,loured& 4 .Indians and 836 kicans. The Institute urges the appoinb ent of Africans ond Ooloureds , ticket clerks a t  a w a y  atation8 here there i b  a large Non- iropean travelling public, and aa J Row.' 7 To Keep Your Blood Pure - . I bv Dr. Eloff ~ J JOHANNESBURG. The establishment of a race hygiene bureau to conduct re- search into "the characteristics of the Coloured people and to trace family trees to ensure that all people were pure-blooded," was advocated by a biologist, Dr. G. Eloff, a t  the conference of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap held in Bloe~nfontein recently. Dr. Eloff said effective precau- tions against mixed marriages should be devised and a psycholo- gical apartheid inculcated to en- sure that every person entermg marriage would first make certain that the intended marriage part- ner was of "pure blood." Dr. Eloff a's0 said that the intellectual capacity of the African was below that of a European, but because of their greater num- bers, the Africans might produce jut as many intellectuals as the Europeans, if not more. In  this lay the great danger for the Europeans, and he was. therefore, concerned with the low birth-rate among the upper claases. Cracks In Nat Unity? a P D O M  BOOSTED AS HEIR-APPARENII JOHANNESBUaOI I 10 - a A&- S. O. st.laom, war hues at r T &mq& - .r tbe "Firat Prslldent of the P m  %pnanon. l Th. edltm of Me T-aler, 8s it tr made out ta be. Why t h t  h. Ve-d said: "He is the talk of the next Prime Mintster o W d  person in tha leadership of h u t h  Africa when Dr. Mdan har men of q t iona l  Afrikaner- just e b b e d  into office? D thi: dmn. the hae State produced itd another sign of the diffemce ol Okr$ral Herteog and the Cape Cape and RBasvafd Rationalisb &. Maim; ~rs 'mvd  h a  pro- represented by Malan and Stry. duaed Advocate Strydom who IS d m  respectively? going to become the next Prune The rivalry between Havengs Minister of South Africa." and Strydom has long been know1 Mrs. 8. Moerdyk, sp@ahlun% On W be b i t e  and thm i g n o a  behalf of the women of the by the Vaderland of Btrydom'! Nationallst Party of the Tram- foHowersr hopes for him ts re- vaal, said: "We, the Nationab@ garded here as a sign that then of the Tramvaal, assure - of dsference~ are becoming import. our full support until the day The incldent ls regarded as-r when he becomes first president m i f i e a n t  crack in the wholt of our Free Repubhe." S m a r  Natfonehst-Afrfkaner Party edl- remarks wer& made by a member fie. oi the Naslonale Jeugbond The Transvaler splashed thls buildmg-up of Strydom over tha! front and second puges of Its issue the followmg mornmg. One heading was: "Next Leader of National S A." Die Vaderland Ignored this m e t  of the banqueE and eon- tented ItseU wlth reporting Strydom's speech on unity. There was no mention of the remarks made by Venvoerd or Mrs. Moerdyk This is regarded here as e sig- nificant indication of the rivalry between Strydom and Havenga wmtng to the fore: and as a sign that the unity w~thm the N~tlon- sllst Party itself is not as solid m SOUTH-WEST AFRICAN MINERS GET 8d. A SHIFT Government's Admissions To U.N.O. JOXANNBSBURO. 0 NE oopy 01 the Unlon Oarrrnmmr, rspl? ia ths Tmatashlp Cormcll's p d m r n t m  on h t h - W e s t  b M c a  hp. nar m h e d  U cormtry Imm Lake B u m s .  I t  nns rcnt to (ha Reverand MlobDel Wtt. and Is the onh EODY avdlable in Somth N r l c r  . .8rme of the replie3 to ths parts of the Reserves now W- mutesshlp Council's 50 queatione cupred by the Herera trlbes are uevery frmk and lull and Wns In Inlerior compered with those parts tsslt mskea the document a very formerly OcerrpYd by them pevepUng one Here nre a few of The Isw doe6 not provide fm he points made' the reCQa>tlQq af either European In the whole perlad kbI the or Non-EUtopem *ade untons &te mIy two Alrlepng There ape no old-we PrQmsions s-sded in pusing their met- for Non-Europeans rlclllsUoll exeml~Uon, dtcr trW.ng oomspondence courws a t  their o a n  wpanw. W of c m 0 U R L F l l M. S a r t .  M tluc Wniob they u e  2s. M. The Unlon Go%ernment. as '8up-e c h e f "  UetermlneS. i a  wh&t m- the AIrlc- mw live, and for what m o d  tncy may live there The Union Govermeat admlta it hsd no pl- for the IUUer psrblci~tion of Non-Eurogew In . the government of the territory. (LP&. wnb17, from extenWg the powers of advlaory beards I Of the terrltoryb budket. 10 18 per cent. lm46,605) was spent an N o n - m m  admlnistrablon and, welfare J W ~  over £16000 ans spent In 1946 on Lmprming cond6tIons in h'atlve reserves. Asked WW oomrntlons of the 1.L.O. the Unlon Gavern- m n t  had nUfled m d  ppplk~l to the teriltor7. the Oovemment msnarrd: 'T.'me." , u i r ~ .  u a h l d d a w n b y ~ w  The donunant .dmid thrt same ' Eanld ' sa t~rr .  .re .#-  squatters Given 24 1 ' ~ o u r s  To Quit . - JOBArnISBURG. O t r A m ~ E 4  st W p h a k ,  oulslde Pretoria. were nncntb @v" X( hwn h, which ba pull dorsn thew s h e b  md mule off the ODendn l.nd they w e n  m p y b ~ .  The Councll thm.tened aciim the murttrra nnleu thw cwrlsd oat the dtlmrtm h t y  f@s were affected Thw were Bewildered lasp apdesled to the ~overwaent wtic~e ~ u m  events "7 O.lld P m v h d  NaUva Afr~~ha W- going ta live on thm p e a t  fw help They asked I M * "  one M N ~ M  kept whers they aould go She could not understand - . - Then when the 24 houra were plaoat~on that nO one Would IfVt up the; began slowly tc dlamantle there whm she aarl the oUu m& huts, pile mud brick& straw I d l e s  had gone Would the lanl and wooden pales and thev then he idlea I M W C  POaaeSiOM t5 don- Mb&g her fmI11 U .nothe1 W,  ana move of1 had right to l m  then The Onsrd(sn reporter vfaitcd - to be rrsaen.bk SW Xmi~Inata the m o r w  t& tlme bmt to move thc sqortbm or lfmit erpired They rere die- the m n  hUlsMe d thu  m ~ n ~ l n g  the* homes, but sUlL W 11 then, nnlnhabltcd, Q thou& e w W n g  some ht-minUUt wed; what sense was there b reprlwe, produred reeelats !W t h ~ t ?  0 the notlnd what was left 0 he hut3 PImJ €Dt"munlqU6' "It v-' "" LeceslsrY to use force IIt a! f the move." This picture of African convicts pushing an over-loaded coal wagon up a hill was taken in Johannesburg. This is typical of the treatment which is meted out to Non-European prisoners in our jails. I ' &Daylight 'Robbery" Of African Unemployed Policy Of New Government JOUANNESBUBO. A W T  BOBBERY" is the  term usd by ene t r d e  ualenbt bw8 b ethe Snetment of Africans under the Unem- pbmnmt  Inemranee AeMrcr*smt whtch Is d a y  &tins worse. Afrlcms who ~ " J L  been p4ymg M u s t r y  was recently offered a wir eonntwucmnr for months - job on a farm. An African WM the Act two years ago-me being w(thin + ~ t ~ l r .  turned away from the Of A factory in the leather Industry the fund. The Government has recently e l w d  down, puttlng 21 ordered that DpYments to Non- I Afr~caa WOlhrs off. Ail had Pald . - Europeans must be thelr contr~buttons since the m- reduced " ceptlon of the Act Some had d'drutlca'ly I . a n t  r u  m Uie lndustrv m e u  They ere not allowed to togn the i e t e  illowed to s1gn the- unem; register of unemployed, have their Plwed reWter once or mice s ~ l d  cards taken awav from them, and then to Workers who lodge appeals are they be no agalnst declslons of the Clalms other WO* lf they do not accept Officers malt ueeks for replies, m work a t  30s. a week. or some such the meantime drawmg no benefit paltry sum, fa r  below the rate ~t THE FUND IS NOW BEING uhieh they worked previously OPERATE* As AFRr- "These men have contributed to " , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ E  iyREzy ,",","E: the fund lust 11ke anyone else." THE'PROVKSIONS OF TPE ACT. Isaid t131~ trade unionist. " ~ t  least l their pro rata contrlbutlons should be paid out to them." Mr. L C. Sehscpers. orexairer of Ure l a d  coaarittcc ef the SwUa Mr(aa m d  hbou Carmdl, quoted elampks b The GunrdLp, of Afrlfan w o r f w  IP t& le&r idustry wLs Lul thlr cl.hu nisded became thrr w d d  r o t  k a k  pkk- -hvd W= -v UeT r a r o - a v a ~ y m ~ ~ r  n r r t A W . n a - I P * A  EEP THE ALL- BLACKS IN THE RESERVES JOHANNESBURG. The following letter recently appeared in the Natal Mercury. "Sir. I am wondering what the attitude of the Government will be towards the All-Blacks who are to tour the country next year. I t  will seem desirable for the offi- cials of the Rugby Union to obtain some definite assurance from the appropriate Minister, be he "Blackie" Swart, or someone else, that our visitors will be treated with proper courtesy as visitors from a sister Dominion. I t  is too awful to think of the "apartheid" policy being applied to them and i t  being insisted upon that they should only be allowed to play in the Native Reserves. My advice to the Rugby Union is to leave nothing to chance. You never know, in view of what is happening a t  present." "Hedley W. Dalton." l%dVEYER BELT SYSTEvI -  OF JUSTICE" JOHANNESBURG. S. HIBBERT, the European woman who chose to serve a term of fmprlsonment for one month after being found guilty of aontunpt of court for shouting: "You rue a lot of brutes; there is no juaMce in this court,"' was released from prison after her husband bad pdd her ripe of E15. Mrs Hibbert alleged that the "In those Johannesburg Magis- whole procedure of a case she mt-  trates' Courts where Native cases nessed had b p n  conducted w t h  are heard, the studied and pro- "a great deal of feeling of the found atmosphere traditionally colour bar which exists in ths associated with courts of law I: country." swept aside m the daily scrambl~ The Guardmn believes that the to clear the rolls for the next day, orderly in the court in which she wrote the Mal. witnessed t h s  incident has now "Hustled up the long stars  from been changed. cell to dock and whlsked down The incident prompted the Rand agab by court officials, accusecl Daily Mail to publish an account men and women seem part of a of wurt  procedure in the Magis- 'conveyer belt' system of justlce "On Monday 444 cases were heard  (by  nine magistrates). "In another court a llne of 30 fatives sat pat~ently on every tep of the long starway leading rom the dock to the basement ells. As their names were called hey scrambled up the s ta rs  to nswer, and then stumbled down gain after the verdict had been lven, and sentence passed." I I vs. MP,S&lI4; - 4 ' r3zir 6 2 + r ~ ~ m ~ ~ c  1- Hare Ibisters To March '<a KSSAULTED IN JO'BURC XIREET JOHi\KNESBURG.-This,$ 12-year-old Pert? Denton, in br.d in a Johannesburg hospital with a broken nose. follouinp n vicious a,saulr on him in the street by a b ~ n d  of European hooliqans. P l l r ~ y  Dvnlinn ;:,L? .. ' 8  , : a rc t r m  :I:.:. r:... i i . . r  64 M A : , . . ~  k l  : . .., H..nr..? n l .  l ! r ' , ? I . I d  C, .l. .. ,,l. , . ,<born h,>d ' 1  " I t  ., ! . .l 8 . .  r i C.CIk , , , l  ". ,L,  l> l. 1,' .,c ,, illWl.lied U b I  i.:,. il i .  !i . <.I ,  ?,!l "lie i",,",. C U I L L T  Till., ".il i>.,!  . I  . U!!, ,  a,:,: . ,  .<l.. L,: !!8, ,,e3d sz,r:, .& N'ah l ~ ~ l > ~ t ~ r l , n ~  .>,:.l ' 8 2 ,  b ,:c1 c>; r l~t~<~l lg . l"> ,11,:, c.t.7, , l , ,  ,,> : 1 v:, "Y<lil (l,,,, l ,,,l,. X .  , i .,. 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