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FILE NAME: Asbestos Sacks and Bags (ASB) DATE: 1967 Aug 31 DOC#: ASB015 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - More than 500 Asbestos Mine Workers Being Laid Off at the Cape Asbestos Mine in South Africa OUUasoestos miners tarn on in - . __________ , ____________ t. 211640 RODUCTTON CUT BACK c.d in ra AT KOEGAS, N.W. CAPE ed ef m il? From Our Correspondent 3 . ] IQrT ^ ) a Cape Town, Thursday. to -e- TiyfORE than 500 gshesto^ mineworkers are being laid off at the Cape STAFlj Asbestos S.A. mine at Koegas, Northern Cape, because of a cut-hack ce RUGBY and soccer lej in production. | to last for a few months. In the ported today that they were not ir- u- assaults on two referees official at the mine said >antime, about 40 White work- affected. A spokesman for the etho -- an d prom ised swift itnhe acutte-bleapchkonweas inptaerrtvlyiewduethatot tehresNv^ecroempbafniyn'gs tramnisnfeerredneator sPhmardiaelslkbaeeGnslaeindlaidthAaloltaffn.noGbMoledniyneAsthlelaranet ig A Rugby referee, Mr/K<| Stander, was hit as he entei| the credit squeeze and partly Pietersburg. Mines sell their asbestos to Cape: the dressing-room at ElliAPj due to a cancer scare among Aboiut 80 Coloured workers Blue Mines. after the important Diggers grand challenge mPoaltLt British dockwnrt,rs----------- fe being placed In jobs at The general manager of the | other mines at Marydale, Prieska Kuruman Cape Blue . Asbestos j ch or A soccer referee, Mr. John! The technical director of the McDonald, was kicked and I company, Mr. L. N. Kuyper, said and elsewhere. Mine (Mr. P. C. B. Wentzel) said j his company produced about half in his dressing-room at Balfc) Park after the Highlands Pat in Johannesburg, however, that SENT BACK the country's output of blue asbestos but that it marketed ocdn Corinthians game. the cut-back was a "purely whAobohuatd 5c0o0mpAleftreidcanthewirorkmeris the product mainly in Europe. to be of Mthr.eJaTnrnainesvleaaRl ouRxu;gpbryesiFdeo!| dpaonmye,"stibcecdaeucsiesiosntockosf attheKoceogmas grant labour contracts were being an"dWsoe wseendhavveerynoltitbtleeentoaBffreictateind ball Union, said last night: had been accumulating. sent back to their homelands. Their contracts would not be by the British dock troubles." think the assault on 1 a Stander was absolutely scl mine official said that the renewed and they would not be 1 However, because of the reces to "d dalous. We will definitely sta production cut-back was likely replaced, he said. sion in Europe, some contracts had been postponed. a full investigation into tl iy affair at th'e T.R.F.U. meetii 'The official said stocks had I "We had slight retrenchment accumulated at the mine while iSt tonight" iome time ago -- a few months stocks in Britain had run down go. But not now. What we a: Mr. Dave Marais, chairmi iy of the National Footbi because' of the recent cancer oing is more in the natuip/ bf on League, was equally upset 1 scare among dockworkers. ostpomng expansions." it said a special meeting of tl "Somebody went on to televi- ne executive of the N.FJL. h sion and said that asbestos in been called for today. caused cancer, so the dockers "We will start by listenii refused to handle it," he said. al to reports and then conduct a very thorough investigation. \ as said at the beginning of t 10 season that we would do ever ae th in g.in our power to star out hooliganism among sp< ip tators -- and that is still o li intention." er Mr. Stander said he did n n- consider the attack on him be very serious. But Mr. N as Donald said he would definite! n retire from the game. _SisadnE us he had llllllllllllllfiiiillilllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllltllHIIIIIIIII* . He said that, partly as a result of this, the industry was trying to standardise the packing of asbestos^At the Cape Blue Mine, the asbestos for export was packed in paper-lined hessian bags or multi-layered paper bags. -He said mere Wefe no MTE problems on the mine caused by the asbestos. i CREDIT SQUEEZE The official said it was neces sary now to turn the accumulated stocks into cash. "The credit HOUSE GROUP squeeze is pressing everybody and we feel it, too." The mine was loading as fast as possible to raise the cash. Mr. Kuyper discounted reports that the cancer scare had caused the lay-offs. He said: "For purely economic reasons we have asked the Bantu Affairs Commissioner in Cape Town for permission to transfer some of our workers from Koegas to our mine in the Transvaal. &L?' "This request had nothing to do with asbestos or lung cancer and was purely a domestic decis- !ion of the company. Stocks have i been accumulating at Koegas and we have merely taken steps to put our house in order. lot "Apparently the people at II Kuruman have done the same." 10 0 * i Other mines in the area re- 1. % s 8 #* - SS 0 *S 0*1$ hi* kat