Southern African Collections : Photographs and postcards of the 1913 and 1922 strikes

Southern African Collections

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Items 1-4 deal with the 1913 strike. Items 5-12 document significant sites associated with the 1922 strike, pointed out by a Mr van Tonder, who has yet to be identified. It is likely that he is either E. van Tonder or H.J. van Tonder who appear in the Trade Union Council of South Africa records.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This file forms part of a series of files, being material collected by Alexander Hepple while researching the history of the trade union movement, workers' organisations and industrial relations in South Africa. For material relating to the 1913 strike see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00001-00001'>RCMS 199/2/1/1</a> and for material relating to the 1922 strike see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00001-00002'>RCMS 199/2/1/2</a>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Alexander Hepple (1904-1983) was born in Johannesburg on 28 August 1904. He was the leader of the South African Labour Party, 1953-1958, and founder and chairman of the Treasons Trials Defence Fund, 1956-1961, and of the South African Defence and Aid Fund, 1960-1964. With his wife Girlie he established the International Defence and Aid Fund's Information Service in London in 1967, which they managed together until their retirement at the end of 1972. Hepple was the author of 'Verwoerd' (Pelican, 1967) and 'South Africa: a political and economic history' (Pall Mall, 1966), as well as numerous pamphlets and articles on political and trade union affairs in South Africa. He died in Canterbury, England, on 16 November 1983.</p>