In the course of his statement Mr. Pirow quoted written instructions by the Third International to its friends in South Africa to swage a struggle against native is and all other forms of appre sion in a revolutionary ma ind to conduct military demonstra tions on December 16 under the slogan of "Live the Native Republic," penetrate the mines by possible means and call a partial stoppage of work on December 14, all available organizations to be used for this purpose, "Mr. Pirow named the organizations in South Africa directly and indirectly implicated of being in communication the Third International, including the Communist Party ofthe South African National "Congress, the Natal Industrial and Comniercial Workers Unions, the League for African Rights' and the League of Anti-Imperialism.
The Government, He claimed that the object of the Government demonstration:
Durban—the raids on native lad been fully achieved, Present lull was merely temporary. The Governnient would now amend the Riotous Assemblies Act and deal as soon as possible with the agitators who were at the root of the trouble, Describing the seething unrest in Durban before the raids, Mr. Pizow said that the borough police wers attacked and beaten by mobs of natives and life and property seriously endangered. A mobile force, brought in from Maritzburg, was treated with contempt. Twelve thousand natives in the compounds flatly refused to pay the poll tax and thousands of natives in the borough followed their example.
Liguor brewing, he declared, was rely carried on, On October 24, he continued, a mobile force rounding up poll tax defaulters wax attacked by a mob of 3,000 natives, but luckily only'
of the mobile force were tives, he went on to say, had formed a' strong organization. for mutual support of their case) and the police had been informed that, on the next raid, not a man would escape alive. A general strike of all dock-workers had been planned and incendiarism was
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