The South African Outlook
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Date
1928
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University of Fort Hare
Abstract
An important statement on the fixing of Native wages was made by Mr. F. W. Lucas, K.C., Chairman of the Wage Board, in an address to the Johannesburg Economic Society on the 21st November. He said: "The Board has been invoked by Native employees to aid them in improving their conditions, which in many places are becomming intolerable. If the Government does not allow the Wage Act to operate for their protection, strong support will be given to the allegations that the Act 1s intended only to benefit Europeans. The Natives who apply to the Board ,are trying to make use of constitutional means. If such means are not open to them large numbers of them will believe that it is useless to Iook to the law for redress and that recourse must be had to more direct and unconstitutional, if not violent, measures.