o' < y V \ - r e n c e NORTHERN EDITION Registered at the ADVANCE, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1954 General Post Officeadvance as a Newspaper PRICE 3d. THE MANDELA CASE The legal profession is fol­ PEOPLE’S lowing with the keenest inter­ CONGRESS- est the case in which proceed­ ings have been instituted against Mr. Nelson Mandela, well-known local attorney, to We promised you news to warm THE LEADERS HAVE MET! have him barred from the pro­ your hearts when we announced our fession. The Law Society has special big May Day issue of Ad­ important step towards the convening of the Congress of the People was taken at Dur­ instituted these proceedings vance. Well, here’s the first instal­ ban last Sunday, when leaders of the African National Congress, the S.A. Indian Con-^ against him because of a con­ ment of that good news—the Dean gress, the Congress of Democrats and the S.A. Coloured People’s Organisation met and viction arising out of the de­ of Canterbury, the world’s most be­ fiance campaign. loved churchman, has accepted our elected a joint planning committee of the four bodies to carry out the campaign. invitation to write a special May The comments of some Day article for Advance. This historic meeting is the open­ the leaders. The charter will emerge be, in every sense of the word, the Johannesburg legal men are ing of a new phase in the long from countless discussions among charter of the ordinary man and unprintable, as the matter is The Dean’s article will tell how struggle of the people for freedom. the people themselves. It will truly woman. sub judice. May Day will be celebrated all over For the first time, in response to the world. Make sure of reading the invitation of the African this article by the writer of that National Congress, leaders of demo­ classic of people’s literature, “The cratic national organisations of all Socialist Sixth of the World,” and ra have met to plan out a major many other books written by this cai ipaign. outstanding Christian and fighter for A campaign to form local peace and justice, holder of the People’s Convention committees in Stalin Peace Prize. every suburb and township, every You can be sure of receiving the village and reserve in cities and in special issue of Advance if you rural areas throughout the length order it to-day. Don’t delay—we are and breadth of the Union will begin sure to be sold out very quickly. immediately. The first task of the local committees will be to hold HAS YOUR UNION, CON­ public meetings to discuss the GRESS BRANCH, PEACE drafting of the Freedom Charter. GROUP SENT IN ITS ADVANCE The Freedom Charter will not be MAY DAY GREETINGS? submitted, even in draft form, bv WOLSELEY WORKER SAYS STATEMENT FORCED Support from Hungary, Italy By BECKY LAN A 15-YEAR-OLD girl, Mina Gungu, told the Wolseley Magis- trate’s Court last week that she had been working at Wolseley Canning Factory since she was 11 years old. She had been called by the prosecution to give evidence against trade union leaders Rachel Williams and Anne McKenzie, who are charged with inciting “Mina Demingo and others” to take part in an illegal strike for higher CHUCK OUT THE CHUCKERS-OUT wages. But when cross-examined by Sgt. going ahead with the organisation Venter, the prosecutor, Miss of the workers. The backward Gungu denied that the accused or workers who have been recruited ar anyone else had told her not to go “scab” labour by the bosses are Massive Opposition To Forced Removals to work. joining the ynion, too! Last week Sgt. Venter applied to have her we registered 75 of them. JOHANNESBURG. declared a hostile witness. He said BOSSES HAVE LABOUR SPY \y iT H the announcement by the Government of Us intention to start its piecemeal ejec­ that the evidence she was giving in court was contrary to a statement A Coloured member of the C.I.D. tion of the people of Sophiatown, Newclare and Martindale at the end of April, the she had made to the police. has been sent into the factory to sp' on the workers as a “sub-foreman.” campaign against this grim plan is reaching new heights among the people of the threat­ Miss Gungu told the court she They very soon spotted him, and ened areas and throughout Johannesburg. had signed this statement under when he turned up at a meeting h force. She had been called into the was ejected from the hall. “I have no intention of moving,” one African householder told when members of the Liberal Party, office of Mr. D. Delport, manager Advance last week. His spirit is reflected in the thousands of signa­ the Torch Commando and others of the factory, and in his presence The workers have been mosf tures to the mass petition against removal now being signed by refused to accept a motion that re­ and that of a factory foreman she heartened by messages of solidaritv people of the area. presentatives of the African and had been questioned by two detec­ from food workers all over the Indian Congresses, or even indivi­ world. Meanwhile a massive demand is which they own themselves, and tives. She pointed out Det.-Sgt. growing among the people of the leave us living in cardboard and dual Non-Europeans, should be Sauerman in court as one of those “We learned with indignation o' brought in as partners in the pro­ Orlando breeze-block death cham­ hessian,” one Moroka resident posed campaign. who had questioned her. the attempt to smash your union. bers, the people of Moroka and said to Advance. “We are Council “That man forced me,” she said, Be sure of our moral support,” Jabavu and other “temporary” tenants. The Meadow’ands houses Commenting on the meeting, a her finger pointing at Sauerman. wrote the workers of one of the emergency camps erected by the are Council houses. We demand member of the Congress of Demo­ largest dairy plants in far-away crats who was present told Advance: She told the court that she was City Council to deal with the hous­ the right to occupy those houses.” People’s Democratic Hungary. ing shortage, that they should have “One had the extraordinary spec­ terrified by the presence of the boss, “LIBERAL” SABOTAGE foreman and members of the C.I.D. And the Italian Food Workers' first claim on the new houses being tacle of members of the United Federation has written expressing put up at Meadowlands and in­ Meanwhile, Father Huddlestone’s Party voting for an all-in campaign EVEN ORGANISING THE its sympathy and solidarity. tended to receive the Western Areas Western Areas Protest Committee is to include the Congresses, and mem­ evacuees. continuing to arouse tremendous bers of the Liberal Party and others “SCABS” These people are living in the support with its campaign among who should know better voting They said to her repeatedly: worst slums in Johannesburg, and European citizens of Johannesburg against it. “Didn’t Annie McKenzie tell you Post us your May Day greet­ the City Health Department has re­ against Verwoerd’s inhuman scheme. “At every meeting of the West­ to strike?” After they had re­ ings right away. Only limited peatedly drawn attention to the Thousands of postcards objecting to ern Areas Protest Committee peated this many times she said space is available, and to be shocking and inhuman conditions the scheme are being signed and African speakers have been on “Yes.” But, she said, this was not sure of yours appearing you under* which they live—conditions sent to Parliament and the City the platform and they have been the truth. should waste no time. which threaten the health of every­ Council. excellently received by the Euro­ The case was adjourned to C2nd one in the city. An attempt to form a united pean suburban audiences. April. Rates: 10/- an inch or 2d. a word. “How can they put up new front of all organisations opposed “One can only conclude that the Meanwhile, my union, in spite of houses for people who live in to the scheme, however, broke down Liberals are lagging miles behind increasing police intimidation, is brick houses in Sophiatown, at a stormy meeting last Monday, progressive public opinion.” 2 ADVANCE, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1954 PRISON EXPERIENCES From L. Kukulela, Bennie Street, Langa, Cape Town. On the 28th January, 1954, 1 ftp. 'Advance was arrested under the Urban Areas Act. I was kept in a cell from 11 a.m. to Friday morning, Post1 29th January. After that we were NO TIME taken before the registration pass officer, who had the authority to PSALM 23 tell us whether guilty or not under Address letters to Advance section so and so. From Nuffsed, Cape Town. i Post, 6 Barrack Street, Cape In the presence of the pass Dr. Malan is my shepherd. officer I was beaten by a police­ TO WASTE Town. Some of the letters I’m always in want; man (number given). below have been shortened or He maketh me to lie down on We were then taken to the cells O n February 4 we printed an editorial that many of our readers extracts only printed. park benches, again without any trial, and I was reported they liked. It said that conditions in South Africa He leadeth me in the path of kept there for three days. apartheid were ripe for an unprecedented unity between all sections of the For my Coloured sake.
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