Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-28 | Page 6 | Gladstone Denounced

GLADSTONE DENOUNCED U , .u; Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 28c The nn- 5S nual Scotish labor conference sitting : here today, passed a peremptory resq lution, demanding that the British gov- I ernment recall Viscount Gladstone, ) governor-general of South Africa, be- v cause of the deportation of labor lead-ers lead-ers at Cape Town. The resolution IT strongly condemns the government of the Union of South Africa for its ac- t tlon. Heated speeches were delivered in ft L which denunciations were expressed i JL qf the "violation of the most element.- I' " a'ry rights of British citizenship," by Y' General Louis Botha, the' premier of South Africa, ' t 'James Ramsay- MacDpnald, 'a So- cinlfst "and ' labor member of parlla- . afl; ment,- described '.the South African k government's action as, "a very cyn- 1 leal conclusion to the capital. South Mv -African, war-" . . . Another comment loudly applauded rf was: I . '.'It .Is -worso scandal than that of i: Chinese labor," referring to the South African ' government, ordinance W ', 3: which .Asiatic laborers were brought to South Africa under contract at 'low Vages to work In the mines, but I M which 'Was later repealed. ' Court Proceedings Begun. . .Pretoria, Union of South Africa, jm Jan. 28. Court proceedings against v4 the ministers of justice, defense and the interior, . because of their action In deporting the South African strike J leaders, b'ega'n promptly today. The- supreme court judge, Sir John 1 W. Wessels, granted an application for leave to apply to attach the three ; ministers for contempt of court. , ; The judge declared that if he had yesterday possessed the information f he now had, ' ho would have granted . an injunction restraining the govern- . ment from' deporting tho men. ...... . . nn .: r