Southern African Collections : Articles and pamphlets

Southern African Collections

<p style='text-align: justify;'>This file is composed of pamphlets and articles by Alex Hepple on the subject of race and employment: <p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Apartheid and the African worker'</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Apartheid in industry'</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Baasskap and industrial progress'</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'The dangerous delusions of Section 77</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>'Hepple, Alex, 'The fiery cross of job reservation', typescript of an article printed in 'Africa South' 2, 1948</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Industrial colour bar in South Africa and economic apartheid', 'Natal Mercury', 4 May 1951 [with typescript version]</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'The native in industry', typescript of an article printed as 'Is native labour replacing white labour in industry', 'Forward', 3 Sept. 1949</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Nats. civilized labour policy is a mockery', typescript of an article printed in 'Forward', 4 Apr. 1949 [published under the pseudonym Plebeian]</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Party's policy for urban native workers', 'Natal Mercury', 12 June 1953</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Poor-whiteism permanent Nationalist Policy'</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Poverty vs local industry, 'Forward', 10 Oct. 1947 [published under the pseudonym Argus]</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Prejudice vs progress: confused attitude towards native labour'</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Race, jobs and politics', 'Jewish opinion', Jan. 1958 [published under the pseudonym A Member of Parliament]</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Hepple, Alex, 'Unemployment by race', typescript of an article printed in 'Africa South', 4 1960</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>'What is Labour's attitude to the colour bar?', 9 Apr. 1951</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>'White labour policy', number 8 in an unidentified lecture series</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>'Work reservation: a Department of Labour Publication', [book review].</p></p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This file forms part of a series of files, being material collected by Alexander Hepple while researching what was known as the 'colour bar' in South Africa, that is the legislation and practices in industry which cumulatively excluded African workers from certain industries or categories of jobs. For excerpts and research notes on the subject, see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00005-00002'>RCMS 199/2/5/2</a> and for correspondence with various unions on race and economic policy see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00005-00004'>RCMS 199/2/5/4</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>